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    1. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes Feb 25

      It remains bizarre to me that the entire discourse around speech, offense, taboos, accountability etc seems to completely ignore that we had an *extremely* similar set of debates about this in 1990s around "political correctness." It was a whole thing!

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Feb 25
      Replying to @chrislhayes

      This is in effect the second wave of the same epidemic. Political correctness had died down by 2000, as we developed social antibodies. But it came back with a vengeance with the invention of social media.

      10 replies 1 retweet 84 likes
    3. David Furlong‏ @davidvfurlong Feb 25
      Replying to @paulg @chrislhayes

      how would we go about developing a vaccine?

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Feb 25
      Replying to @davidvfurlong @chrislhayes

      I've spent some time thinking about that. One way is to give names to the general phenomena involved. For example, the aggressively conventional-minded: http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html 

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        1. David Furlong‏ @davidvfurlong Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg @chrislhayes

          Perhaps a short and eventually unfashionable-to-be-called word for people who falsely/without justifiable cause accuse someone else of incorrectness could swing the tide. Its funny how much power such a word could yield if it was known by many

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        1. short king simp ↙️ ↙️ ↙️‏ @spaceliberal Feb 25
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          this argument makes very little sense. all you do is ascribe different institutions at different points of time with either positive or negative traits as arbitrarily described in your quadrant system, all with no proof.

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