“Turn away the rhetorical dope peddlers. As satisfying as it is to hear that your foes are irredeemable, stupid and deviant, remember: When you find yourself hating something, someone is making money or winning elections or getting more famous & powerful.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-polarization.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur …
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Yes, but: there’s also a fine line (not to say a tradeoff) between (a) resisting epistemic closure by correcting your allies and (b) turning into an ill-disciplined circular firing squad. The Left’s historic penchant for groupusculisme is case in point of the latter failing.
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It was just a quick sketch but you're right, the first one should actually be idealized as a line for an uninformative prior. Errors are not symmetrical but the second two were the point about perception and costs.
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Related: Tfw criticism of the ingroup intended as part of normal self-improvement is intercepted by the outgroup & spun as evidence of resistance to self improvement.
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Or spun as evidence that, “Even these guys acknowledge that their group is wrongheaded.” (Once again, however, this is an example of asymmetric polarization. One side engages in much more of this sort of bad faith cherry-picking than the other—and we all know which side it is.)
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