Getting angry about #1 is a mistake often made by people who are very deeply committed to a special goal & misunderstand other people's lack of knowledge or attention to it as politically or ideologically motivated.
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eg, I currently have someone insisting I am a leftist who hates her for caring about pro-life women who feel forced to give babies up for adoption rather than that I, a British writer on academic leftism & SocJus don't actually know anything about adoption policies in Alabama.
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#2 is a mistake often made by people with a deep commitment to 1 idea or who think there is only one way to look at things. They tend to take it very personally if you decline to take it on & accuse you of hypocritically silencing debate unless you consider say Jung, immediately
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It should be clear why anyone would not want to engage with someone who is being abusive or can't/won't have an honest conversation.
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#4 is where the entitlement really comes in. "You're closed to opposing ideas if you don't listen to mine!' In reality, your insight that 'liberalism is cancer' might well get passed over for someone presenting a thoughtful argument about irreparable flaws inherent to liberalism.
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All very good points. Though it must be suggested that this works both ways. If someone chooses to make inflammatory hyperbolic statements in the first place, any one of these options could be expected to occur in return.
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If someone makes inflammatory hyperbolic statements in the first place, others can freely choose not to listen to them without being hypocritical as an advocate of freedom of speech. That is the point here.
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Technically that's true. But what's the point of freedom of speech if there's no dialog or conversation to go with it? Otherwise someone is just spouting vitriol into an echo chamber.
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I don't know what you mean. I am saying it is OK to choose not to dialog with *certain people*, mostly because it increases the chances of productive dialog.
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I don't know how you got from 'It's OK not to waste time on people who make bad arguments, are rude, are unreasonable, are incoherent' to 'Don't have dialog.'
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