Liberal (and true-religious) analog of baskets of deplorables is baskets of misery: doing toxic emotional labor nobody else will to alleviate suffering. It can yield very high spiritual returns if you survive. In both cases, median outcome is mindrot, exceptional is high returns
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Important to distinguish between disagreeable and deplorable. Deplorables might even be polite/civil. It’s the moral repugnance their views evoke that is the problem. If a racist or misogynist is the first to discover anti-gravity, I want to know, but I don’t want to be friends
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Venkat the phrase “devil’s advocate” is not meant to be taken literally
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Hodl your deplorables!
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