And another hour is gone. I'm just going to have start muting people.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/1054724915868430341 …
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It was because they associated scepticism of a particular non-sexist explanation for the wage gap with a whole set of views held by western intersectional feminists and it seemed perfectly reasonable to them to select any of those views to argue with.
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This is tribal thinking. There's also another one I am being hit with right now a lot. The argument that it is suspicious that I am only critical of extreme views and if I were a sincere critic I should really criticise the reasonable ideas of that same group.
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Because people think in terms of tribes and think that an attack on the worst ideas of a tribe while agreeing with the best ones is inconsistent rather than an indication that someone is engaging, not with tribes, but with ideas.
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They see it as "attacking low hanging fruit" if I am critical of extreme identitarian movements on the left but don't make a reasoned argument against universal healthcare. This assumes that I really just want to attack the left and am going for what is easiest.
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I'll be told that if I were sincere I'd steelman the ideas on the left by going for the best ones and ignoring the worst ones. The idea that I'd like the left to focus on its best ideas and weed out the worst ones coz I want it to win is not even considered.
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They just want to bait you into agreeing with them. It's the closest they will ever be to "winning" an argument.
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This is called ‘tu quoque’ logical phallacy. Maybe you simply waste your time with such persons. I thought that literacy is required for such discussions.
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