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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 ā€œclassicalā€ 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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I wonder... when was the last time a sincere debate had any meaningful impact on the world. I’m guessing in the late 1940s in the US. There are some Congress episodes that actually sound like people convincing adversaries across the aisle through persuasive arguments.
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the thread didn't mention civil debate though, more so about cancelation. not sure why you jumped to civil debate, i see a connection, but i wouldn't make the jump.