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reading the Canceling of the American Mind and the intro outlines how both the political left + right have built rhetorical defenses that avoid actual debate. the left’s: complex, layering personal attacks to block any criticism the right’s: simpler, dismissing experts, journalists and Trump critics both rely on what the authors dub "The Great Untruth of Ad Hominem,” which is that “bad people only have bad opinions.” we see this happening across the board with the H1B debate: calling someone a billionaire, big tech, indian, white, MAGA, second generation, etc. to refute their points. society as a whole argues for power and status using identity politics. seemingly everyone is guilty.
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Well said and one of the reasons that Erasmus of Rotterdam has my respect 🫡
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say more? i’m not super familiar with him
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He basically held the middle during the breakout of what would become the Protestant Reformation... His position was that the Catholic Church would benefit from reform. At first Luther wanted him on Team Luther, but he said that was too far... Both sides said he was on the other team. History can look back and see him as being a fellow who walked a principled and informed middle path He also wrote some real bangers. "In Praise of Folly" brings the cheeky heat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus
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When Wiki/History says this about you... "His influential middle-road approach disappointed, and even angered, partisans in both camps." Maybe... there's something going on there that could be historically valuable for our present times 😉
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