So it is especially frustrating that expressions like the one in the screencap exist because I think they make it /less/ likely that people who are reluctant to get a vaccine will actually do so, if for no other reason than to spite people who clearly hate them and wish them ill
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rulers in a democracy cannot afford to be openly contemptuous of the people they govern, and even aside from that this kind of attitude is indecent and inhumane and I really wish people quite generally would stop burning down the country to own their outgroup
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A couple notes here: I’m not designing and implementing a policy in DC; I’m a PhD student in Montréal. And that tweet was tweeted in April 2020 about how to achieve suppression, not how to coerce vaccination. Finally, that’s not even close to my most coercive take.
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fair enough! would you like me to append your rebuttal to the end of the thread?
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I mean I think you should just delete the tweet since you seem to think it’s about vaccines and it was tweeted about a totally different question before vaccines were even available.
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No, I can’t. But I do think when you lie you should delete it.
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i was glad to acknowledge downthread that I was wrong about the context in which you posted the tweet, but its incorrect to construe this as a lie; being wrong and lying are entirely different things
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and as you yourself note it seems like the general substance of your position was represented correctly, nor have you disowned your views of coercion since
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well im a literal cartoon robot so who knows my experience has been that phd students in many ways truly are the wretched of the earth, tho
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