Are angry responses a metric you truly want to go by? For example, your average HBD post on reddit would elicit angry responses.
It looks to me like an earnestly-held opinion argued eloquently. Both honest and civil, yet heating the psyches of his respondents in a way that is very en-light-ening. Who would tell you about their own insecurities and hypocrisies?
Did he write "bait"? Of all the possible combinations of intentions? I don't know. I do know that "bait" keeps an ostensibly objective community from wrestling with the cognitive dissonance of a two-tiered rule system. I know that a ban would assuage the user base's hurt psyches.
As for the verbal riots and "angry responses" - Pour la canaille, Faut la mitraille! Conceding to the impulsive behavior of the mob is exactly why the HBD crowd has been kicked out of every mainstream community. I believe anyone angry about @BurdensomeCount's well-stated yet heterodox views should do some shadow-work.
This ban is transparently what it is, and themotte continues to surprise no one.
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Are angry responses a metric you truly want to go by? For example, your average HBD post on reddit would elicit angry responses.
It looks to me like an earnestly-held opinion argued eloquently. Both honest and civil, yet heating the psyches of his respondents in a way that is very en-light-ening. Who would tell you about their own insecurities and hypocrisies?
Did he write "bait"? Of all the possible combinations of intentions? I don't know. I do know that "bait" keeps an ostensibly objective community from wrestling with the cognitive dissonance of a two-tiered rule system. I know that a ban would assuage the user base's hurt psyches.
As for the verbal riots and "angry responses" - Pour la canaille, Faut la mitraille! Conceding to the impulsive behavior of the mob is exactly why the HBD crowd has been kicked out of every mainstream community. I believe anyone angry about @BurdensomeCount's well-stated yet heterodox views should do some shadow-work.
This ban is transparently what it is, and themotte continues to surprise no one.
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