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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Don't mean to dunk on this guy, but I feel like this utterance is representative of a much broader trend that does nobody any good. All political tribes have some foe-marking shibboleths like this, so it follows that they're all mostly ignorant of some parts of the world.
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Sam Adams
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“Cancel culture” is the new “virtue signalling” in that the instant someone says it you can stop listening to them
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
It may be the case that you find people willing to engage in X or Y discussion to be of low morals and aesthetics, and you may well be right. Yet all those people think that about some other group, too, whether yours or another. What happens to the information in this system?
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Consider something like an OODA loop, where effective, agile decision-making becomes a function of quality, availability and relevance of information. What happens when all your enemies are in your blind spot? Filling the blanks with caricatures is no substitute for information.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Why do people who hate cancel culture listen to obvious grifters like Andy Ngo, or whoever else has clawed their way up? Why do pro-cancellation types so often ignore credible reports of overzealous mobs & woke abusers? Why are so many heads so deeply burrowed in so many asses?
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
My guess is, if you even accept this premise as realistic, the answer has a lot to do with simply not *wanting* information from outside.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
And if you start to see that at the meta-woke/anti-woke level, everyone is ignoring something important, it carries over elsewhere. It's a broad internet of sociopolitical fracture. Most of the networks barely interact, except at the top. "It's a big club, and you ain't in it."
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