Office ChairsJun 22, 2017

I think we need new terminology to speak of those who invoke a low-level understanding of free speech when it comes to quite frankly poor moderation decisions.

At a surface level, the way I've seen a lot of people talk about it only serves to reinforce the perspective that moderation = censorship.

Show threadVacuum Forest 🌳Jun 25, 2017
@dzuk Or just call them "assholes". No need to make up new words. Keep it simple, semantics!
Show threadVacuum Forest 🌳Jun 25, 2017
@dzuk But seriously, you're dealing with an issue that is largely one of semantics, and you want to make up new terminology to fix it. This seems like an inefficient way to deal with a problem, at least from an engineering view. Maybe in social engineering it works? But, I think it's just circling the issue.
Show threadOffice ChairsJun 28, 2017

@VacuumForest For me, part of it is about handling the superficial parallelism in leftist and alt-right discourse.

Even though the factuality of claims can often be pretty stark between the two, the kinds of discourse and remarks are strikingly similar. Like, a centrist could just see two 'sides' scared of each other and not want anything to do with each other while berating each other with in-group slang terms in isolation (which in a way is true).

Show threadVacuum Forest 🌳
@dzuk If they're both saying the same things, but they can't agree, there isn't much hope for reconciliation regardless of terminology. Nobody can "win" in that state. It's stupid, and hopeless. I'd just walk away from it all, trying not to be spiteful. 😔
Jun 28, 2017 at 1:52amWeb