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Example. Consider these 2 lists of words and phrases: Empathy, lived experience, justice, inclusion. Personal responsibility, growth, freedom, individualism. I don't even have to craft meaningful sentences, let alone a thesis, to evoke a visceral response. The lists are enough
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So if you are trying to write about a topic that involves that vocabulary, you've already determined its social fate BEFORE you craft even a single sentence.
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I don't know how to solve this problem in terms of general writing tricks and hacks. It may not be possible to solve. You could just pre-estimate the difficulty or writing a piece by brainstorming a list of the words/phrases you might use.
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Topics too, in a slightly different but related way to what you point here: twitter.com/vgr/status/112 Choice of topic, even seemingly benign ones, exposes writers to attack surface. Accounting for that increases difficulty
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In general (ie not just around culture war topics) writing is starting to fail as a tool for thinking clearly and effectively. You either end up writing the easy stuff, or failing on the hard stuff. It's not skill erosion. It's important topics getting too hard to think about
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