https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1806036301009011054

Seeing so much hate for this diagram that would have been accepted as common wisdom 5 years ago makes me sad, and makes me somewhat more scared for the future of the world.

I hope we can snap out of this mode of thinking soon.

bravo bringing attention to this. it's contributed greatly to the effective stalemate in social/governmental progress

perhaps it's helpful to formulate a term. for instance, "ad hominem" is a terse phrase that can neutralize attempts at anti-progress, where the goal is to disrupt. but if you had to explain "ad hominem" every time, discussions and hence progress are more difficult.

"fringe attack" — an irrelevant fallacy that seeks to magnify the behavior of the fringe as representative of the group sentiment held by the supermajority

^ just made that up, but maybe we can workshop it. we need to reduce ideas to vocabulary as a first step. not-fun fact: we didn't know how to talk about "genocide" until Raphael Lemkin coined the word

bravo bringing attention to this. it's contributed greatly to the effective stalemate in social/governmental progress

perhaps it's helpful to formulate a term. for instance, "ad hominem" is a terse phrase that can neutralize attempts at anti-progress, where the goal is to disrupt. but if you had to explain "ad hominem" every time, discussions and hence progress are more difficult.

"fringe attack" — an irrelevant fallacy that seeks to magnify the behavior of the fringe as representative of the group sentiment held by the supermajority

^ just made that up, but maybe we can workshop it. we need to reduce ideas to vocabulary as a first step. not-fun fact: we didn't know how to talk about "genocide" until Raphael Lemkin coined the word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant_conclusion