This is a good thread but what I'd like to underscore is that the problem of shaming/shunning is coterminous with social life itself, is likely to be more extreme in democracies (as explained by Tocqueville) & has no easy policy solutions.https://twitter.com/parabasis/status/1504827375913107465 …
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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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The ‘Russophobia’ may be new, and even a bit concerning, but given it stems directly from actual atrocities they are visiting on Ukraine it seems weird to compare it in any way to the anti-LGBTQ laws the GOP are pumping out.
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It's being directed against people who are not at all responsible for the atrocities and is a form of bigoted collective punishment (of a sort common in wars and earlier directed against Muslims after 9/11).
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The Russophobia is indeed like the Muslimphobia post 9-11 in that neither party really endorses it, but it is undeniably rising as world events stimulate it. The anti-LGBTQ stuff though is a key part of the GOP’s culture war campaign, and the entire party is behind it
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I would say a chunk of GOP -- the Limbaugh wing -- did take up Islamophobia after 9/11. And Bush and liberals did more to speak out against Islamophobia after 9/11 than Biden and liberals against Russophobia right now.
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I think that is fair, and I also think that the Islamophobia then was an order of magnitude worse (or more) than the Russophobia we see now. However, after 9-11 the US was decidedly not at war with all Islam, but is very clearly in a proxy war with Russia now.
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