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“Nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth.”—On a quest to find bullets that remain unbitten—bdmatthews71@gmail.com

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    1. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jun 18

      BD Matthews Retweeted Dan Kaminsky

      (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 …

      BD Matthews added,

      Dan KaminskyVerified account @dakami
      Banning kidnapped children from hugging isn't even Nazi shit. It's Dolores Umbridge shit. There's a reason she's the most feared and despised character @jk_rowling ever created. Kids know Voldemort isn't real.
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    2. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami Jun 18
      Replying to @matthews_bd

      The background is that a couple kids were hugging eachother, crying uncontrollably, and a worker was ordered to separate them. He noped out and blew the whistle.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    3. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jun 18
      Replying to @dakami

      Yeah, that does sound like a situation where an extremely sensible rule like “No touching other detainees” would have a bad consequence, but if you’re talking about that outside the context of the rule and its overall effects, you’re missing the big picture.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jun 18
      Replying to @matthews_bd @dakami

      My guess is that they’d prefer the story you’re talking about to a story about kids getting molested and their guards doing nothing. Given the inevitability of complaints, it’s good to optimize for relatively trivial ones.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami Jun 18
      Replying to @matthews_bd

      Yeah, read the rest of the thread. Once again, I'm shown Twitter is not *accidentally* an anger amplification engine. These are its failure modes.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jun 18
      Replying to @dakami

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami Jun 18
      Replying to @matthews_bd

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jun 18
      Replying to @dakami

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jun 18
      Replying to @matthews_bd @dakami

      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.

      3:24 AM - 18 Jun 2018
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        2. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami Jun 18
          Replying to @matthews_bd

          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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        3. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jun 18
          Replying to @dakami

          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.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jun 18
          Replying to @matthews_bd @dakami

          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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        5. Dan Kaminsky‏Verified account @dakami Jun 18
          Replying to @matthews_bd

          How about we roll back to whatever we were doing last year. A conservative approach, if you will.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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