Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Could be cool to create a fake cancel attack. Just make some post that's over the line. But then reveal a secret message in the post 2 days later reading: "Cancel culture is poison and this experiment was created to illustrate this."

Is it really important to try to help normalize statements that look like they're trying to be racist? Also that plan makes as much sense as https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/738/025/db0.jpg …

I'll just leave this here: https://twitter.com/Janfreterson/status/1229846674014658560 …

I think that both decoupling and contextualizing are skills. The dichotomy is about which you have more of a natural affinity for. People who are capable of decoupling but not recontextualizing are almost as annoying as the converse.

Alternative Explanation: Leftists have a vested interest in deliberately coupling information which undermines their sacred belief in equality with moral disgust because that belief is the foundation of their cultural, institutional, political, and financial power.

s/leftists/people/ But yeah, I think you're right. I this is generally the case of "cultural norm asserters" (regardless of what cultural norms they want to assert). Disgust is a critical component of narrative defense vs. the other, so it's not shocking to me this gets used.

Imo, it’s also difficulty responding to moral ambiguity, things that provoke contradictory emotional responses. Previously society was flipped to a position of extreme intolerance and moral condemnation. Now we are flipped to extreme acceptance and inclusion.

There is no middle ground where you can say”I don’t like that, it’s not my cup of tea but that doesn’t take away the humanity of x,y or z” It’s overcompensation imo