more rhetoric and semantics. do you think elitist and anti-humanist ideas ought to be promoted?
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Replying to @danlistensto @MimeticValue and
Socratic questioning only gets you so far. I'll just say it in the affirmative. No, anti-humanist ideas (especially elitist varieties of them) ought not be promoted. Ideas _do_ motivate behavior and anti-humanist ideas are responsible for catastrophic mass movements.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Liggi and
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I'm not promoting any ideas here other than assume innocence until proven guilty. But everyone here wants to jump on the scapegoating bandwagon.https://twitter.com/MimeticValue/status/1043141719116718082 …
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Replying to @MimeticValue @Liggi and
I'm not scapegoating. I'm not a mob of people or an authority figure and I'm not putting anyone on trial or ritually casting them out. I'm confronting the anti-humanist ideas that are present in that rhetoric. They suck. They're shitty ideas that have caused a ton of harm.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Liggi and
Ok, now we're getting somewhere. He's right here. Go have a discussion with him and persuade him that these ideas are bad.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @Liggi and
I'd rather persuade _you_. he's free to say any shitty thing he wants and maybe it makes for good horror fiction. what I care more about is getting _you_ to take a stronger stance against anti-humanist ideas because you seem like you actually care about humans in the first place.
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Replying to @danlistensto @MimeticValue and
you're a classicist and your family background is Chinese, right? I think you already know what this symbol means then. 仁 "human-heartedness" is my favorite translation of it. it's the most important virtue in classical Chinese thought.
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Replying to @danlistensto @MimeticValue and
Dan Garfield tells a Chinese man what the most important virtue in Chinese classical thought is. Interesting choice. Some might say it smacks of imperialism, racism, and cultural appropriation.
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @MimeticValue and
lovely. I freely appropriate good ideas and freely criticize bad ideas. where is your human-heartedness? do you really believe what you write or is it just satire or hyperbole?
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Replying to @danlistensto @MimeticValue and
I stand by the things I say. I am not interested in humanism or human-heartedness as you interpret them. I don’t know about you, but most people who invoke these values only do so as a club to beat others into submission, cheerfully unaware of their own motivations as they do
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I sincerely hope you are never in a position where you have any power or authority.
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Replying to @danlistensto @0x49fa98 and
Maybe no one should. Then again, I’d start a nuclear apocalypse if I could. We deserve a hard reset.
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