Here's a bad kind of argument: If you favor X and some very bad people favored X, then you are wrong and, by association, bad. Here is @evefairbanks in WaPo likening me & others who favor “facts, reason, and civil discourse” to defenders of slavery:https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/29/conservatives-rhetoric-confederacy-south-civil-war/ …
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W odpowiedzi do @JonHaidt @evefairbanks
Not how I read this piece at all. The point is rather than defenses of reasonableness, civility, and free speech often function to normalize greed and self-interest, sometimes intentionally sometimes unintentionally. It’s a vital lesson of history; relevant eg for climate change
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W odpowiedzi do @jasonintrator @evefairbanks
Agreed, they CAN function that way; she shows that they did. But why drag me, Harris, Weiss, etc into this? Is she asserting that we promote civility etc. for the money, or some other covert purpose? Yes. That's a serious charge to make w/o evidence, based on an association
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W odpowiedzi do @JonHaidt @evefairbanks
Put it this way: she is saying you are like Rawls.
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I disagree. The ideals of free speech are being misused by the far right at the same time as they are being prominently trumpeted by liberals. Recent history shows how problematic it is to promote virtuous ideals eg free speech without being open about the danger of their misuse.
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I think the root problem is more, um, systemic. Everybody in "intellectual" professional fields is under great economic pressure to have the last word, or at least to assert their POV victoriously. It is very difficult to remain linguistically holistic.
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Catch phrases like "free speech" or "social justice" have been linguistically abused and repurposed a million times over. The very organization of culture doesn't allow for language to exist in its designed form for longer than 5 min. It is very unfortunate but all-pervasive.
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