There’s a difference between thoughtful debate and branding someone a heretic. Many of the replies to Sam I’d categorize as personal attacks.
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Here's an example thread I wrote. https://twitter.com/wycats/status/941888353485537280 … Would you categorize it as a personal attack?
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No, not a personal attack. But I also think you’re jumping to conclusions without really considering his ideas.
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Remember his thesis is “maybe we should be more tolerant of disagreeable ideas”. Everyone seems to be latching on to his one sentence about disparaging gay folks, which i think Sam included for effect to show how seriously he takes this (sam is gay)
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The fact that people are unable to consider the post in its entirety due to Sam inserting that objectionable sentence I think is a microcosm of what he’s talking about.
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I don't think that's a good analysis. We're talking on Twitter so people are using his sentence because he used it as a real example of how far his perspective goes and it can fit into a tweet. I don't think it's an uncharitable shortening. He used the example on purpose.
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I read the entire post multiple times. His argument boiled down to asking people to tone down their reactions to what they perceive to be bigoted attacks because an environment in which people react strongly en masse enables the notion of "heresy", ...
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And the notion of "heresy" is hard to control. He claims that ideas like Bitcoin or SpaceX wouldn't get good support in SV today because they are connected to "heretical" ideas like "we should try to work on things the government decided were too hard"
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But in reality, there is plenty of support for this alleged heresy, and plenty of people whose innovation we're not seeing because of a notion that we should discourage people experiencing bigotry from speaking out too aggressively.
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Silicon Valley's significant pushback against ideas like "women are biologically inferior as programmers" is not "creating a culture of heresy" around ideas like SpaceX.
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It's just not a good analysis. And it's pretty silly to claim that the above pushback is "an example of the problem"
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