I'm a little shocked reading the comments here, as I come to LessWrong to find people who are hyper rational and meta-critical. Yet nearly every comment seems to have accepted at face value that this is a real phenomena that is happening.
I'm not suggesting it's not happening, but I am unconvinced it is. To make the claim that "A distributed culture of leftists are destroying open dialogue in a free society", I have to evaluate that hypothesis against every other possible hypothesis which explains the data I'm seeing.
I'm a little shocked reading the comments here, as I come to LessWrong to find people who are hyper rational and meta-critical. Yet nearly every comment seems to have accepted at face value that this is a real phenomena that is happening.
I'm not suggesting it's not happening, but I am unconvinced it is. To make the claim that "A distributed culture of leftists are destroying open dialogue in a free society", I have to evaluate that hypothesis against every other possible hypothesis which explains the data I'm seeing.
For example, an altern... (read more)