One of the most characteristic signs of a witch hunt is when people are targeted merely for defending other people who've been targeted.
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How do you determine if a person is being targeted merely for defending someone and not because he's making a bad argument?
One obvious way is by whether the argument is actually bad. But you can also tell by the nastiness of the replies. A mob has a very different feel from people merely disagreeing.
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I disagreed wholeheartedly this past weekend with an article published in the Atlantic and posted here on twitter, I reserve the right to do that. It’s not nice to get ratioed, I get it; many article defenders appeared (and I saw the author was distraught over the reaction.)...
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I sort of feel bad for that, but I still don’t agree with the article after all the talk and arguments. There’s got to be room for that position.
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What if someone makes an arguments that is not obviously good or bad? For example
@ylecun recently mentioned, showing a graph how polarization has been increasing since before the internet. This doesn't mean the rate of polarization would be the same without it. He got cancelled. -
He got cancelled as people took it as an argument for why Facebook has not contributed to polarization. On one hand, I see perhaps some bias on his side of the argument, on the other, the reactions are perhaps too extreme. For me this is not a clear-cut case.
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