Part of my joy comes from blocking angry dudes that feel entitled to engagement. Highly recommend it! 👍🏿
I don't have to talk with everybody. There are so many people that are genuinely curious and open minded, that I just don't have to deal with these dudes.
There's an effectively infinite supply of "dudes on the internet." There is absolutely no shortage. The marginal cost of blocking one, is close to zero.
"Well, what about the marketplace of ideas huh? Not very inclusive of you!"
OK! 🤣
Paradox of tolerance and all that.
I don't see it as a paradox at all. You cannot include all ideas, because one of the loudest ideas, is "We should silence the ideas of Black people!" 🙂🙃
You cannot include this idea without excluding other ideas. So absolute inclusion shouldn't even be anyone's goal. It's certainly not mine.
And dealing with annoying people online can be exhausting. Even if they're not malicious! Me doing "racism 101" individually for millions of people, just doesn't work.
@rakoo @mekkaokereke That analogy is good.
I use a different one: I *value* tolerance. I want to maximize it.
In that equation Trump’s brownshirts are a negative number and should be removed in order to maximize.
@rakoo there are different versions of that (including hairy game theoretical ones) but you're probably thinking of Yonatan Zunger's essay.
And even if you're not I recommend it.
https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376
@darcher @rakoo @mekkaokereke The hypothetical analogy of “the monster”, a god who torments non-believers with divine wrath gets turned on its head when it’s revealed that there never was a monster to torment anyone. In that scenario, the real “monster” is the divisive ideology itself!
Groups of people deluding themselves into killing one another due to their beliefs in something which never existed in the first place. Fear begetting needless death.
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I also quite like the contract/treaty angle (and it was super helpful to me years back), but I also feel like tolerance just isn't the best word. "Ignoring/allowing/enabling bigotry" is a fundamentally different (and opposite!) behavior from "trying to build and maintain a safe community." Yet both are "tolerance"?
wtf
Like, is "tolerance" even a thing? Intolerance sure is! And so is objecting to that intolerance. But tolerance?
@matt @raymierussell @rakoo @mekkaokereke My personal favorite framing of this was “Tolerance is a peace treaty”… which suggested the opposite of tolerance wasn’t incivility. It was “The Troubles” as in Ireland.
https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376
(Originally seen via thread on G+, so .. y’know, old)
@btanderson @mekkaokereke @matt @raymierussell @rakoo Right. That was above. I'm suggesting "tolerance is a peace treaty"
"Contract" has a lot of baggage around enforcement mechanics and breach mechanisms that (I think) confuse things in this specific analogy, where "peace treaty" seems more on point
sorry for showing up out of nowhere with this, but have you all seen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-our-former-democracy/id1767428498 ?
podcast looking at the troubles and beyond in northern Ireland and learning from it to apply to the present and not make similar mistakes
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