Is it actually diverse, though? I honestly have yet to read any of these guys say anything that can’t be reduced to “I have had a thought but you won’t like it! But! There’s nothing you can do! I am going to speak it! Here it comes!” Then they say something utterly banal?https://twitter.com/plinz/status/997177939304374273 …
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Replying to @mykola
Do you mean to say that Harris, Peterson, Weinstein, or Weiss say things that are (a) politically or intellectually similar (i.e. not diverse) (b) utterly banal, and (c) uncontroversial in today's climate?
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I mean (a), primarily. And I know that (a) seems mistaken on the surface because they seem to all have variation in their positions, but I also just straight up don't believe that most of them are engaging in good faith. I think it's profitable to be seen as controversial.
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As a result, (b) follows - because there's nothing more banal than just spewing clickbait and feigning surprise that their poor-faith arguments are being misunderstood by their opponents.
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What do you think about this lecture by Bret Weinstein? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz0oxIZ3xIg …
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Honestly I listened to him make dire warnings about some incident that happened to him somewhere and how it heralded the end of civilization, then I listened to him nonironically use the term SJW while lamenting a lack of humor? Then I saw I was only 3 mins in and turned it off.
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Like, why am I going to give an hour of my time to someone who opens with vaguely described dog whistles and insults? Why would anyone?
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Did it occur to you that if a group of people from different political camps all sound the same to you that you might be in a political camp yourself?
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Of course I am in a political camp - who among us isn’t, today? We have values, each of us, and those values inform our affiliations and our preferences for social organization. I’m not opposed to these guys because they’re political, but because their values are bad.
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I know many people that are not in political camps. But even among those that are, some understand the other camps and realize which bits they must flip in their minds to be in each other camp. It is mostly a function of where and when you are born and what happens after that.
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