@xaetacore @alex @saatja @Saorsa
As a token of good faith i would also appreciate if you'd take down your post here
It seems to have been taken down; I would have liked to see it, as asking for speech to be suppressed without any justification seems very sus to me.
@xaetacore @alex @saatja @Saorsa
Y'all are on an instance we've limited for lack of moderation, so I'm disinclined to take your claims at face value. If I keep seeing interaction like this without evidence, that limit could easily be bumped up to a full block.
@hoshianna : You are safe here (subject to the usual caveats which basically boil down to "don't be a jerk").
Further thought: there's also a lot of Not Thinking Things Through involved. (That's part of how they're so easily manipulated into holding terrible ideas.)
This surprised me, when I first realized it was true even of my retired-university-professor father. His critical thinking is fine-tuned for his own field, and easily misapplied to others.
Yeah, on a practical level there's no perfect model, and individuals -- especially those not in positions of authority -- are often much more reasonable.
From my own experience, though, it does help to be able to spot that kind of thinking when it shows up -- otherwise it can just seem baffling and/or deliberately combative. If you know where it's coming from, it's easier to... metaphorically point the fire-extinguisher at the base of the fire, instead of ineffectually trying to douse the flame.
I strongly suspect that a lot of it has to do with having been raised with authoritarian ideas, especially:
TLDR: they think differently about the world than we do. Once you understand that, their actions make a lot more sense (even if they're no less awful).
@meatballhat @news Yeah, I noticed those in my in-box -- but it seems to have been just a transient burst a couple of hours ago.
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