I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that when people say "you are creating polarization", they pretty much mean "stop pointing out problems and let's pretend none exist"
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I regard the dramatic increase in polarisation as a real problem.
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so we just pretend that problems don't exist so people are not polarized when they are aware of them?
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Iris van Rooij Retweeted Iris van Rooij
I thought this was on point (sorry, Dutch):https://twitter.com/IrisVanRooij/status/1112338468468871169 …
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I think there's a genuine difference between people actually polarising and people accused of polarising. The former are never the ones told "you are being polarising".
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My example is austerity in th UK, which I believe was exactly pursued to change the middle ground, to polarise people.
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Based on bad science too — and yes, created to harm to poor no matter what.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/18/uncovered-error-george-osborne-austerity …
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We’re very good at overseeing errors if the outcome pleases our bias, but in this case, I suspect it was finding “facts” to fit after the strategy was chosen.
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