I just accidentally quote tweeted a person I was having a disagreement with saying 'don't be this person' when I meant to quote tweet myself saying this: https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/685624693093699585?s=19 … Have apologised and deleted. I did not mean to single him out as a person not to be!
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I first realised how common this was when Richard Dawkins tweeted that it was unacceptable to deny women the right to drive and 25 people replied "even if they've been convicted of dangerous or drunk driving." I have many ppl muted for it. I don't understand the psychology at all
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There must be some pleasure in taking a statement out of context and finding a way in which it doesn't apply or has an exception because so many people do it, but I can't imagine what it is or how it works.
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They teach the "principle of charity" in 100-level philosophy classes: address the best possible version of your opponent's argument. Can't claim to do it consistently myself (who can?) but many people never seem to have even considered that something to aim for!
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It's not exactly incentivized on Twitter. Virality selects for and rewards exactly the kind of behaviour you're calling out: portray someone's tweet in precisely the most outrageous fashion, attach a sassy takedown and rake in the RTs!
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It's not even "human nature", it's just maths, network amplification effects. I think this will continue until the selection mechanism (currently something like instant dopamine burst, irrespective of motive) is changed
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It’s very popular with the frat boy philosophers Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, Charlie Kirk et al. They routinely do violence to the meaning of even basic words in order to arrive at their otherwise unsupportable points. Nazis were left wing, Hitler was a Sanders socialist etc...
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