(Read! another! book! But also) I haven’t looked into the apparent ban on hugging, but: is the actual rule something like “no physical contact among detainees who aren’t family,” with “hugging” inferred? Because that would be a sensible ground rule.https://twitter.com/dakami/status/1008004238536916992 …
I did. It’s important to think in terms of base rates and amplification, ie what headlines would you expect from a reasonable policy, applied at scale, given adversarial media coverage. It’s a crucial element of media literacy in the current year.
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At the end of that thread, I'm like, you know, somebody mentioned this might have been an overextension of a "no touching" policy. And that's not impossible.
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Yes—but you mostly dwelled on your emotional response to the headline you were exposed to. That’s unhealthy: your first response should always be to ask for the most benign/boring explanation for a headline.
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The way the media work today is that people construct the most misleading/upsetting possible narrative without technically making factual errors. You know this is true in your field; time to act as if it’s just generally true.
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Here's the thing, though. Whatever the unemotional interpretation is for us, as adults, *that is not* the interpretation we can expect or demand from the children in captivity here. All they know is, they hurt, somebody saw them hurting less, and *was angry about that*.
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If our standard is that we oppose policies if they run the risk of upsetting kids, let’s you and me abolish ICE as soon as we’I’ve finished with the US public school system.
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Nobody is denying that the hugging story is enormously traumatic to the children involved, assuming it wasn’t completely fabricated. The question is what policy makes sense given the totality of the circumstances.
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How about we roll back to whatever we were doing last year. A conservative approach, if you will.
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