The thing that really bugs me about the @sama perspective is that it sharply reframes the power dynamics.
Instead of "some people who feel attacked by bigotry are pushing back" we get "the person spewing the bigotry is under attack for 'heresy'"
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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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This. This point is killer.
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