I mean if one wanted to come up with policy solutions to shaming/shunning I'd suggest making people less easily punishable: so end at will employment, extend tenure beyond small group of academics to wider society, and maybe have UBI. That would make eccentric opinion easier.
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Are we willing to radically remake employment conditions so that free speech is easier? I'm game for it but I rarely if ever see the free speech brigade talk about such things.
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More broadly, the key point is the one made by
@jakebackpack which is that in terms of what people can express, there's never been more free speech now than anytime in history. (The one possible exception is Weimar Germany) https://www.gawker.com/media/speaking-freely-has-never-been-easier …pic.twitter.com/K9i28DUR6n
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In any case, it's hard to take the "social shunning" stuff as a serious problem when we're seeing actual anti-LGBT laws with real chilling effect and also a wave of Russophobia blacklisting, with little liberal pushback https://twitter.com/BlakeProf/status/1504854545800654848 …
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I think the solution is less political than social. We need to foster a culture of humane engagement with people we think are wrong. This may not be a doomed venture.
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The classic metaphor is the "marketplace of ideas." Markets are tough places. You try to sell me a rotten fruit, I'll never buy fruit from you again, and will warn my friends. If you sell me a rotten opinion, I will never trust your opinions again and will warn my friends.
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NYT EBd wants to sell us awful, awful products, then complain when we give them a bad review.
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No kidding. They just came up with a new name for an eternal social phenomenon in order to light a fire under their rubes.
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