I think I’ve seen you in two modes around your more controversial opinions:
Demurring / ‘not wanting to get into it’ / ‘expecting to be attacked’
Aggressively shoe-horning in political examples without making their relevance over less-charged examples clear.
If you continue to hold this set of beliefs, my hope is that you come to feel less persecuted, such that you can unselfconsciously weave the true-to-you version of them into conversation, without drawing too much or too little attention.
However, I don’t know if I’m capable of perceiving a third thing, given my beliefs. Like, maybe there is no ‘sweet spot’ and it will always seem to me that you’re either being an evasive crypto fascist or awkwardly insisting on centering a -phobic/-ist line of argument, because my brain is broken. Afaict, this is what you believe about (people like) me, and I’m not really sure how to rule it out.
curious as to the strong negative response here; usually when I get downvoted a lot I kind of expect it ahead of time, but this one was surprising!
If anyone has guesses as to why this was so unpopular, I’d be interested to hear them.
Edit: the above comment was at −12 within 15 minutes of posting. My best guess now is 1 or 2 strong downvotes? Currently at −2. (I don’t care terminally; I just really don’t know if the comment is bad vs somehow narrowly offensive)
Edit 2: swung up to +17 (not totally sure that’s the exact number), and now down to +2. Glad to be controversial, I suppose. Renewing my bid for anyone to tell me why this comment would be divisive. Genuinely confused.
I think I’ve seen you in two modes around your more controversial opinions:
Demurring / ‘not wanting to get into it’ / ‘expecting to be attacked’
Aggressively shoe-horning in political examples without making their relevance over less-charged examples clear.
If you continue to hold this set of beliefs, my hope is that you come to feel less persecuted, such that you can unselfconsciously weave the true-to-you version of them into conversation, without drawing too much or too little attention.
However, I don’t know if I’m capable of perceiving a third thing, given my beliefs. Like, maybe there is no ‘sweet spot’ and it will always seem to me that you’re either being an evasive crypto fascist or awkwardly insisting on centering a -phobic/-ist line of argument, because my brain is broken. Afaict, this is what you believe about (people like) me, and I’m not really sure how to rule it out.
curious as to the strong negative response here; usually when I get downvoted a lot I kind of expect it ahead of time, but this one was surprising!
If anyone has guesses as to why this was so unpopular, I’d be interested to hear them.
Edit: the above comment was at −12 within 15 minutes of posting. My best guess now is 1 or 2 strong downvotes? Currently at −2. (I don’t care terminally; I just really don’t know if the comment is bad vs somehow narrowly offensive)
Edit 2: swung up to +17 (not totally sure that’s the exact number), and now down to +2. Glad to be controversial, I suppose. Renewing my bid for anyone to tell me why this comment would be divisive. Genuinely confused.
you pierced the veil. the iron law around here is not to mention the author’s intent/motivation, but only the content of their essay.