Listening to the (very enjoyable) @farnamstreet interview on @SamHarrisOrg's podcast has me thinking about the crazy overhead we implicitly put on people when we expect them to not retweet/link to bad actors & feel justified in piling on when they do, even inadvertently
Especially when you couple with it two norms which appear to prevail, “Calling out is positively virtuous and gains you points” and “Ties go to the aggressor because [believe the X/otherwise you’re silencing them/presumption of innocence is a tool of the enemies/everyone guilty]”