We rats, post-rats or adjacent are all aware how much our culture values "being willing to consider I might be wrong."
But I wonder if the rash of culty rat-adjacent groups/individual manipulators has something to do with this value.
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quite explicitly called this out as a thing brent was doing in her analysis and it was really clarifying for me. the way she described it was something like "he pushes the 'you might be wrong' button and it makes you feel virtuous to agree with him about that"