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