Add the tendency to use false "either/or" comparisons to deflect attention or deny importance of dynamics: why it all feels so discouraging.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/806193615726845952 …
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How can you worry about, say, "fake news" when there is also.. This is "eat your vegetables; kids are starving" argument. Does it ever work?
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Also baffled that people can argue that what happened this election with hacks and misinformation was just same-old, same-old.
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also, Whataboutism. Scourge of rational debate since the invention of both rationality and debate, presumably.
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