my politically right-aligned friends (in aggregate) and my politically left-aligned friends (in aggregate) agree with each other that I'm naive about the other group
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how is it so hard to understand that most (not all!) people are benevolent and want to improve the world, but there is *also* broad and widespread disagreement about *both* values and facts and that's on top of general human fallibility!!!!!!
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inevitably when this happens I wish that I had just kept my mouth shut, and been humble enough not to comment at all that desire is at odds with my personality, my own particular human fallibility...
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I wish that essentializing the Other weren't such a ubiquitous, deep-rooted impulse. I wish that I didn't constantly lose that struggle with myself — the struggle to see "opponents" as fully human, aware that my hubris clouds the false negatives, that I can't even always catch it
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me posting shit that's going to be divisive is the whole problem here. I can't change twitter politics discourse, but I can change my own behavior. I can steer myself away from engaging in ways that provoke strife ...well, in theory. I lack the discipline (or discernment?)
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do I apply the addict's self-delusion to Twitter? I tell myself that the fun is worth the angst, that this time I'll manage to avoid the political hot buttons that rankle my friends or followers, that I'll have the wherewithal to *never* let my equanimity slip (as if)
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Depends on your definition of very fine. For example there are absolutely competent, empathetic Nazis who "regrettably" believe that "lesser humans" must be "lower on the totem pole" because darwinism is science! & as a white person you likely won't see the vile effects of that.
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Not looking to get into a protracted debate but we do have children dying in concentration camps of preventable diseases while the responsible agency refuses offers of donated medical care, maybe the word evil shouldn't automatically be considered invalid here
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