it's upsetting. communication in left space seems mostly just like pattern matching any argument to the correct dunk. and as a result the only communication that isn't given the hostile pattern match treatment is echo chamber communication. sad for a movement that's supposed to be the intellectually open one, to be so committed to laziness and flattening perspectives. wtf happened
yeah there really is unfortunately a real dismissiveness—a lot of people want an exclusionary social club, which is fine in the abstract (people are allowed to have social clubs) but it's a terrible way to do politics
it's upsetting. communication in left space seems mostly just like pattern matching any argument to the correct dunk. and as a result the only communication that isn't given the hostile pattern match treatment is echo chamber communication. sad for a movement that's supposed to be the intellectually open one, to be so committed to laziness and flattening perspectives. wtf happened
yeah there really is unfortunately a real dismissiveness—a lot of people want an exclusionary social club, which is fine in the abstract (people are allowed to have social clubs) but it's a terrible way to do politics