when you can score points by taking offense, there is a natural death spiral of taking more and more and more offense.
Yes. Either that, or it empowers martinets to come up with petty etiquette norms and declare that someone’s approach is “rude” or “trollish”, regardless of their actual merits. This is especially ironic when the debate itself involves important issues in ethics, empathy or similar: the person with the most ethical or empathetic position in the debate can nonetheless end up being silenced.
“Autism Speaks” is the best known Autism charity in the US.
It routinely silences actual autistic voices, and shows basically no empathy for it. Any autistic person who can empathize with someone mislead by Autism Speaks is showing more empathy than it does.
Autism Speaks also tends to advocate a eugenics approach to “curing” autism, which many autistic people find unethical.
Hopefully useful as an example despite being a bit controversial / political on the ethical axis (I can’t imagine any clear cut example that wouldn’t be, aside from historical examples)
Yes. Either that, or it empowers martinets to come up with petty etiquette norms and declare that someone’s approach is “rude” or “trollish”, regardless of their actual merits. This is especially ironic when the debate itself involves important issues in ethics, empathy or similar: the person with the most ethical or empathetic position in the debate can nonetheless end up being silenced.
Can you provide an example?
“Autism Speaks” is the best known Autism charity in the US.
It routinely silences actual autistic voices, and shows basically no empathy for it. Any autistic person who can empathize with someone mislead by Autism Speaks is showing more empathy than it does.
Autism Speaks also tends to advocate a eugenics approach to “curing” autism, which many autistic people find unethical.
Hopefully useful as an example despite being a bit controversial / political on the ethical axis (I can’t imagine any clear cut example that wouldn’t be, aside from historical examples)