I found it distracting that all your examples were topical, anti-red-tribe coded events. That reminded me of
In Artificial Intelligence, and particularly in the domain of nonmonotonic reasoning, there’s a standard problem: “All Quakers are pacifists. All Republicans are not pacifists. Nixon is a Quaker and a Republican. Is Nixon a pacifist?”
What on Earth was the point of choosing this as an example? To rouse the political emotions of the readers and distract them from the main question? To make Republicans feel unwelcome in courses on Artificial Intelligence and discourage them from entering the field? (And no, I am not a Republican. Or a Democrat.)
Why would anyone pick such a distracting example to illustrate nonmonotonic reasoning? Probably because the author just couldn’t resist getting in a good, solid dig at those hated Greens. It feels so good to get in a hearty punch, y’know, it’s like trying to resist a chocolate cookie.
As with chocolate cookies, not everything that feels pleasurable is good for you.
That is, I felt reading this like there were tribal-status markers mixed in with your claims that didn’t have to be there, and that struck me as defecting on a stay-non-politicized discourse norm.
I don’t subscribe to a stay-non-politicized discourse norm (often one tribe is Actually Being Worse, and I’m not going to handicap my ability to say true things, though it’s worth doing so carefully), but I am also quite happy to edit to include anti-blue-tribe examples as you or others propose them.
EDIT: Also, the linked FB post “get really mad about something stupid” is a blue tribe example, which I mention as evidence that I had previously written about the blue tribe being bad in this way all by itself. =)
I found it distracting that all your examples were topical, anti-red-tribe coded events. That reminded me of
That is, I felt reading this like there were tribal-status markers mixed in with your claims that didn’t have to be there, and that struck me as defecting on a stay-non-politicized discourse norm.
I don’t subscribe to a stay-non-politicized discourse norm (often one tribe is Actually Being Worse, and I’m not going to handicap my ability to say true things, though it’s worth doing so carefully), but I am also quite happy to edit to include anti-blue-tribe examples as you or others propose them.
EDIT: Also, the linked FB post “get really mad about something stupid” is a blue tribe example, which I mention as evidence that I had previously written about the blue tribe being bad in this way all by itself. =)