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Contributions for the week of August 29, 2022
Identity Politics:
- "Once the victim responds everything turns to picking apart their defense and hounding them for it."
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Really impressed by @Hoffmeister25’s entries.
I’d go further, even, with the concept of the Asshole Filter and argue that it is the dominant mechanism of the culture war. On this board it’s very popular to assert class interest, incompatible culture, or other conflict-theory reasons why the teams can’t get along. How often is this comparing two extremists? The mistake theorists, too, tend to fall prey to this filter. If the most visibly “mistaken”, or the most obviously conflicting, are the lunatic fringe—well, it’s nice to feel superior.
This is worth distinguishing from the garden-variety outrage dynamics mentioned in the CW thread prompt. It’s not just that an unkind or uncharitable take will get picked up and signal-boosted by the enemy. Even the process of doing so is going to stack up bias.
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