"Contempt makes persuasion impossible — no one has ever been hated into agreement, after all — so its expression is either petty self-indulgence or cheap virtue signaling, neither of which wins converts."https://buff.ly/2Tge25j
Good article. Sad how many replies here are basically people saying 'Yes, but MY contempt for group X is totally warranted, and NOT showing contempt would be unseemly....'
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Yours is a specious argument, since the vast majority of replies here are NOT as you describe, but are more along sensible lines like: "Yes, but SOME positions merit contempt." You are straw-manning them. Weaksauce.pic.twitter.com/liBYOXuEtU
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You precisely paraphrased what I said and then called it a strawman?
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Under the assumption that hated people will stay in the society with their voting power, contempt is useless at best. But if you actually want to eliminate them, or strip them of voting rights at least, then it's a tool to motivate others to the same goal
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contempt brought a Democratic president to assassinate 100s of them with drones after all. A gop president to jail children away from their parents. If violence is an option contempt makes sense
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I was going back to modify my similar tweet. Is contempt ever warranted? I don't have contempt for raving homeless people, maybe I shouldn't for anyone else? Just pity? Or what?
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Yes, well obviously the NYT comments section are always morally justified in what they think.
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It raises a good point, but the irony here is that the IDW is about 90% expressions of contempt. It runs on contempt.
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Ehhh...it’s the difference between explanation and justification. People out here are dying based on these political differences. This isn’t just some sociological/academic experiment.
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I’m pretty ok being contemptuous of actual Nazis. Just for an example.
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