And the second framing is asking people who want to push back against systemically fucked up excuses for bad behavior to tone it down. To leave space for the people propagating the excuses to innovate.
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And somehow, the argument twists itself into a pretzel of asking people not to say things they believe in order to avoid creating an environment where people can't say what they believe.
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So they end up believing that we need to tolerate a belief in "biological inferiority", but we can't handle the targets of that bigotry pushing back.
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Again, it's just a complete rewriting of the power dynamics, but the rewriting is so complete that it's not even always easy to see it.
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Good heuristic: if you're telling the targets of an attack (and their friends) to tone down to make space for the ideas of an attacker, you've lost the plot.
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I think that people who make these arguments are trying to create a oversimplified version of fairness. It is suspicious that this kind of fairness tends to be pitched when people are dehumanizing others.
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Yeah, there's very little of the same kinds of arguments pitched to justify activism. In fact, these arguments are often used to ask activists to tone down "for the greater good"
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I'm glad that he's getting the backlash he deserves but I'd be even more glad if people didn't try to deconstruct his views if it was something very intellectual. It's uninformed, misguided balderdash.
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Uninformed because he thinks that the world is filled with well informed, unbiased people without prejudice. This can't be further from the truth. Misguided because he thinks that there's some kind of dichotomy between allowing progressive views and not allowing hate speech.
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You can have a scientifically driven society without having to entertain thoughts like "gay people are evil". We got past that stage of civilization long ago. Anybody who still engages in such a discourse is actively distracting the society from the path to progress, not helping
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Yeah, I tried very hard to avoid "replying to his ideas" - I tried to do a critical analysis of why his post sounds like ideas when it's not.
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