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Cowardice is like blackmail: whatever benefits you accrue crumble the moment you grow a spine; you don't have to be owned for long before you're owned forever.
The minimum buy-in for being a decent person and anything better than a worse-than-useless friend is the capacity to say "I'm waiting to see if this can be substantiated."https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121340611477557248?s=12 …
Frankly, we need to be doing much better than we're doing now, because deep fakes are about to utterly shatter an already tenuous shared reality. Winter Is F***ing Coming and we're arbitrating compensation for the sheep our dragons are eating
By the way, people can get cornered by growing an audience while saying *only* unobjectionable stuff — this is why I suggest "front-loading" courage. I think I've got a wider range than most bc I'm already known to assert speculative, controversial & politically homeless things
One lesson I've learned from Twitter: I never believe anything bad about anyone famous until the evidence is overwhelming. The attention (= money for reporters) you can get by telling lies about someone famous is just too tempting.
I'd also like to see more folks praise those close to the accused who refrain from either premature dismissal or reflexive condemnation. The space between the two is extremely rocky territory for public figures & we should be appreciative of anyone willing to stand there
Unfortunately it's a rule of the sacred/taboo game that you show your purity by by enforcement that is *obviously unthinking*. You wouldn't want to be seen as one who considers negotiation with evil. The very thoughtlessness shows you are reliable.
I got the idea of the importance of appearing not to even consider taboo ideas from this @PTetlock paper.
http://tomstafford.staff.shef.ac.uk/docs/tetlock03.pdf …
@jmrphy your interview with Nina Power, (about how her critics declare they have not read her) reminded me of this.
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