more rhetoric and semantics. do you think elitist and anti-humanist ideas ought to be promoted?
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Replying to @danlistensto @MimeticValue and
Socratic questioning only gets you so far. I'll just say it in the affirmative. No, anti-humanist ideas (especially elitist varieties of them) ought not be promoted. Ideas _do_ motivate behavior and anti-humanist ideas are responsible for catastrophic mass movements.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Liggi and
Mimetïc Value Retweeted Mimetïc Value
I'm not promoting any ideas here other than assume innocence until proven guilty. But everyone here wants to jump on the scapegoating bandwagon.https://twitter.com/MimeticValue/status/1043141719116718082 …
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Mimetïc Value @MimeticValueReplying to @AlexanderBlum0 @Liggi and 4 othersNo it's not. The fascists were elitist but they were humanists. You're slandering if you think that I'm defending evil ideas. All I'm saying is to assume innocence until proven guilty, which is the rule of conduct in classical liberal America.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MimeticValue @Liggi and
I'm not scapegoating. I'm not a mob of people or an authority figure and I'm not putting anyone on trial or ritually casting them out. I'm confronting the anti-humanist ideas that are present in that rhetoric. They suck. They're shitty ideas that have caused a ton of harm.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Liggi and
Ok, now we're getting somewhere. He's right here. Go have a discussion with him and persuade him that these ideas are bad.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @Liggi and
I'd rather persuade _you_. he's free to say any shitty thing he wants and maybe it makes for good horror fiction. what I care more about is getting _you_ to take a stronger stance against anti-humanist ideas because you seem like you actually care about humans in the first place.
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Replying to @danlistensto @MimeticValue and
you're a classicist and your family background is Chinese, right? I think you already know what this symbol means then. 仁 "human-heartedness" is my favorite translation of it. it's the most important virtue in classical Chinese thought.
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Replying to @danlistensto @MimeticValue and
Dan Garfield tells a Chinese man what the most important virtue in Chinese classical thought is. Interesting choice. Some might say it smacks of imperialism, racism, and cultural appropriation.
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @danlistensto and
It's fine.
@danlistensto is a good guy. Don't respond too rashly.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @MimeticValue @0x49fa98 and
Finally something I think we can all agree on!
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Naval promoted an interesting story that an online creator took time to write.. Why don’t you write an article for Quillette about people promoting the work of others in good faith on twitter? It amazes me that this can even get negative.
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Replying to @JordanTSack @cognazor and
Yeah, nothing negative at all about what 0 HP Lovecraft believes. Nothing at all...
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