You’re wrong. You’re very, very wrong & it’s the reason why you’ll never appeal to the left until you understand this concept.
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I understand. You know I understand that. You know I hate that. I don’t think this has anything to do with “questioning the narrative”. It’s about giving people a “logical” way of questioning the truth by portraying himself as only “questioning” the conspiracy.
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It’s a way of distancing himself from the people asserting the conspiracy while also giving validity to people questioning the conspiracy. Can you try to see what I am saying?
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I do see that but I also think that not being seen as doing that would require not questioning things like this and letting only ideologically-motivated conspiracy theorists do so. I'm more worried about that.
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I took some small issue with Bret's tweet but I also took issue with many of the responses. My issue was a bit separate, though, in that I don't like the pragmatic reasons given for "entertaining" conspiracy theories. I think we should just treat them like any other propositions.
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i.e. if they seem like they have low prior probability, we should reject them until we have better reason not to and if they don't, we should entertain them. The idea of entertaining them or explicitly not entertaining them based on what social effects might happen loses me.
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Hmm. I didn't see that layer at all.
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My introduction to Bret's tweet was Don Moynihan's response to it, which was explicitly concerned with the pragmatic effects so that might be more of the reason I'm focusing on it.
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Yes, I'm with you now.
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It’s becoming quite obvious. I find questioning conspiracies great- I find their timing to question this suspicious