This is my main point about the ending of The Emperor's New Clothes being wrong Unpopular pariahs DO get their ideas vindicated by reality and society DOES change its mind, a lot, cynical takes on this story notwithstanding But they don't come back and apologize to youhttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1288160161757044745 …
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History books constantly heap scorn on people for being "ahead of their time" "Although his abolitionist views would seem unremarkable today, Charles Sumner was remembered by his colleagues as an intemperate attention seeker who did his cause more harm than good"
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What, because he thought slaveowners were pustulent shitstains and he said so all the time? Fuck you man If that made him "hard to work with" it means his colleagues were all shitty people, not him
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This always happens, again and again The "loud intemperate attention seeking SJWs" point out the Emperor has no clothes Then ten years after he dies the centrist mainstream finally passes a bill acknowledging his nudity and pats themselves on the back for making progress
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And then turn around and scold the SJWs saying maybe if they'd been less right less early on their cause would've benefited from them presenting as less "extremist" "Why did Sumner have to go and get himself almost beaten to death by saying such inflammatory things"
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Hillary Clinton may be treated well by history, but not by people alive right now.
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She will not be, I'm afraid. Her chance to reframe the story WAS 2016. Her "narrative" (i.e. 'the hard-bitten compromises of second-wave feminists were worth it for THIS') was already damaged in 2008 when the uncompromised purity candidate (Obama, then) pulled ahead...
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I've been considering how Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is such a good work for the moment - not just because of the title The protagonist is correct, righteous, and devoted to the truth, but because he's such a sanctimonious dick about it it's easy to turn people against him
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There's an important corollary to this, which is that Important People pay zero price for being wrong, so long as they were wrong in the same way as all the other Important People.
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Exhibit A here is Iraq War II, where the people who were right about it all along had their careers stall and die, whereas the people that rah-rah'd it still end up on CNN regularly giving us their Very Important Insights.
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