This is one of those "Why we need the liberal arts" moments.https://twitter.com/frankpasquale/status/878367783217659904 …
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It is *reasonable* to demand greater care and stronger evidence for claims that match patterns known to have often led to mistakes before.
Sure. But the general pattern also supports the idea that standards required for claims related to recent disasters tend to be unreasonable
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Well, those standards would have helped these folks dodge a collection of humiliating and harmful blunders in this case.
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And what makes systemic racism & similar bias a "recent disaster" rather than a "consistent pattern of cognitive bias throughout history"?
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Recent disasters like the Holocaust, the eugenics movements, and slavery distort rational evaluation of any vaguely associated topic.
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Your response baffles me. If I broaden "the Holocaust" to "ethnic genocide in general", all of your examples are as old as humanity.
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The only "recent" part is society as a whole disapproving of them. And now you want to water down that disapproval!
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And even if I read your examples narrowly, they are 70, 100, and 400 years old! In a discussion of modern society, how's that "recent"?
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