I always love this move where people who deny it's OK to point out the implications of their own rhetoric are perfectly comfortable pointing out the implications of other people's.
I don't see any realistic prospect for harm in your imputation. If a mere poll of mine was able to turn anyone into a Nazi, then that person was going to eventually become a Nazi regardless of anything I've said or done.
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This is a collective action problem, of course. Naturally your one question (silly to focus on the poll aspect when it's the framing of the question at issue) doesn't have a big impact at the margin. But when everyone's catering to these assumptions here and there, it adds up!
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So obviously I'm not thinking that you can personally end the rhetorical equivalent of global warming via reducing your rhetorical carbon footprint, so to speak. Nevertheless, rhetoric scales in a way carbon footprints don't; you've got 14+k followers, things go viral.
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