Well, mainstream support in media for Antifa is one recent exception to that particular rule...
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Does the mainstream media support Antifa? The moderates can rationalise the extremists tho.
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WaPo and a number of other outlets did indeed come out with "explanatory" coverage treating it as a non-terrorist organization.
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That's compatible. Rationalising in the most charitable way your own side coz you're so focused on existential threat on the other.pic.twitter.com/TGDo10t2UE
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Or the perception of one, yes. There's that fear that "if I grant credence, it derails from my own fear, so I will derail theirs."
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So-called weak man arguments. They should be confronted like any other fallacious argument.
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Also, one should strive to do the opposite: Always be steelmanning. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2012/12/the-virtue-of-steelmanning/ …
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That is, to try to strengthen one's opponent's arguments before challenging them.
@GlennLoury is a good example:https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/racism-and-violence-in-america …
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Exactly. Once people tie their ideology to their believed purpose on earth, they start to go bonkers with their arguments.
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In an attempt to combat this, I follow only the more sensible of "them" while following plenty of the idiots among "us".
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Brexit aftermath in a nutshell. What is disturbing is people believing there is no independence or intellectual decision made in oposition
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This drives me bloody mad. Thanks for naming it, and thanks for listening.
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