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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6

      I am very interested in the psychology of people who present this odd mixture of abusiveness and pseudo-intellectualism. Their drive is clearly to cause upset at the same time as being recognised as intellectually superior. I don't understand it.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6

      I understand desperately wanting other people to think you are smart, obviously. That's often born of a simple insecurity. I don't understand wanting people to hate you at the same time. This suggests a very twisted psychology to me but it seems to be quite common.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6

      I've never met these people in real life so I think they're probably much more humble & pleasant in real life. This behaviour must serve some kind of need and is engaged in online where you can be who you want to be and no-one knows who you really are?

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        1. Andrew Jackson‏ @HJacksonajh May 7
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          You see the phenomenon on the roads. Some drivers are rude and abusive because the distance from others created by being in a car makes them feel safe about it. Same with social media. It creates a distance that makes people feel they can be rude without consequences.

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        2. chris goble‏ @cgoble72 May 6
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I've tended to look at it as an intersection of high functioning psychopathy with group-based & sanctioned power. Its like new religious founder dynamics combined with an obsession to punish ppl for the joy of those dynamics. Matthew Sears is a good case study. 1/2

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        3. chris goble‏ @cgoble72 May 6
          Replying to @cgoble72 @HPluckrose

          2/2 The new iteration seems to be the leveraging of minority groups to insulate one from blowback. I imagine it is like psychopathic magic armour. You can be as bigoted and vindictive as you want - because your acts are sanctioned as being for the "betterment of all" #stalinesque

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        1. Juan Arevalo‏ @juanvi1967 May 7
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Shall we possibly call it a middle-age crisis? Mixed with "I don't have to tolerate rubbish from anyone"? Obviously inaplicable to under 45s.

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        1. Inge‏ @IngeFormenti May 7
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Some of them just aren't pleasant people, although the couple I know lack the courage to get really ugly ftf. At least in the world of Facebook

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        1. David j‏ @David_Jorgonson May 6
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          Trying to establish dominance in their online interactions?

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        1. Anti Human‏ @Inclined2Chaos May 6
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          Are you familiar with the term "social vampire"?

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        2. Brad O'Neil‏ @CoeTrawk May 6
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I suspect that the endorphins associated with that kind of behavior (I’ve seen similar among “conspiracy theorists”) come from the easy FEELING of being right where others are wrong, not the long hard scientific slog of trying to determine what is right/wrong.

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        3. Brad O'Neil‏ @CoeTrawk May 6
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          Also suspect the pseudo-intellectuals HAVE obtained some “rote” knowledge of their subject (such as can be gleaned from the Internet, etc.) but lack the ability to analyze it, go deeper, find flaws, compare views on it, etc. They fill that void with shouting and abuse.

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        2.  🦇 🖤 💀 👻卂ntiҜripkean 💧 ➡️ ❄️ 🍑‏ @AntiKripkean May 6
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Perhaps they 1) feel guilty about something and feel absolved when others hate them. 2) Have the desire to be combative yet don’t want to act on it without an excuse to do so. 3) Get entertained when people appear wrong to them because it gives them the intellectual highground.

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          Replying to @AntiKripkean @HPluckrose

          Also: maybe the need to feel like they’re fighting an enemy. If they perceive an individual, group, ideology, etc. as an enemy and get attention from that enemy, perhaps they feel validated with their efforts.

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        1. evan max‏ @eanmax10 May 6
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          This part is completely par for the course for the internet. It's fundamentally based on the shield the internet gives when it comes to your genuine identity. I imagine there's gonna be an entire psychology field on internet conduct in the future.

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        1. Not-A-Nation Ball  🇧🇪‏ @MrBelgiumBall May 6
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          On a Belgian tv program they had a segment where they confronted people with their rude comments on social media and almost everyone acted like they knew nothing.

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