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don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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It’s not content free! I gave a bunch of examples of useful heuristics for navigating discussions of tribalism in my other comment, and Thomas did the opposite of most of them (named groups by things they didn’t like rather than things they stood for, avoid carelessly reifying group attitudes, avoid needlessly relitigating old conflicts).
I also don’t think it’s tone-policing. It’s about how we talk about a subject that humans are pretty biased about. Seems about as tone policing as if I said “let’s try to discuss the problem from many angles before proposing solutions” and then someone came in and proposed solutions and I pushed back on that. There is real advice about how to discuss difficult topics well and it’s not all centrally free speech violations.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.