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Not a bad articulation of what I’ve come to think of as the sincere conservative position.
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1/ Yesterday we found out @ginacarano was fired from Star Wars over Social Media posts Lots of people talk about cancel culture, but so far no one has given a serious account of exactly what cancel culture is, where it comes from, and how it works So, Cancel Culture A Thread🧵
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It takes a sort of classical liberal approach based on free speech. But I think it fundamentally fails to grasp how facts and truth work in practice. wrote a nice 3-part series that I think better models things in terms of trust markets
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I can’t take “classical” stances seriously anymore. It’s like going to a renaissance fair. The people there are of course likely to be right about everything they say about swords and armor and wenches and knights. But that’s... not the world I live in.
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My own highly unpopular opinion is of course the correct one. We live in a divergentist world where increasingly it’s not important to agree about most things with most people and consensus truth is merely a larp that some seek as a lifestyle choice.
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This is the right pivot for classical liberals tbh; you don’t have to give up your values to acknowledge that most people don’t share them and probably never will. Then the interesting questions are “how far can I pursue my values, given that they’re unpopular?”
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