And specifically the purpose of ridicule is to define the bounds of acceptable behavior to everyone else, not convince the person who you are ridiculing of something
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Well, I'm glad we've retreated from the explicit endorsement of holding disgust for others, at least
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @arthur_affect and
Sometimes ridiculous behavior is deserving of ridicule. Sometimes contemptible behavior is deserving of contempt.
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Agreed. Trouble is that when you get humans together in a group, and start ridiculing some other group, sober assessments of when, exactly, ridicule is or is not justified aren't always made.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Cybren and
Arthur admitted elsewhere in this thread that he was a conflict theorist "born in the womb". So you can't trust him to make this assessment for you. Or trust the bits of info he has cherry-picked about Scott's blog to be fair. I recommend you read Scott's blog for yourself.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Cybren and
Sure you can Conflict theorists are correct
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Do you believe in the principle of charity? If not, why should anyone reading this thread trust you to give a charitable assessment of Scott?
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @arthur_affect and
A truly neutral assessment isn't possible the moment there are actual stakes; if you mind bias, no assessment is trustworthy per se (least of all your own). I'm more likely to trust people who are honest about their bias, which Chu certainly is.
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Replying to @Adele_Quested @arthur_affect and
I'll admit I am biased and I'm a huge Scott fan. Didn't mean to cover that up.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Adele_Quested and
That said, part of being a Scott fan is doing what you can to mitigate those biases.
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No it isn't, it's being a smarmy little shit about it and thinking that your aesthetic revulsion for certain forms of politics and conflict constitutes actually being closer to truth even as it transparently turns your community into an army of nerdy white clones
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