Re:A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette
by barrkel on Monday November 12, 2018 @03:50PM
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I don't like how your reply is explicitly tribal. You seem to live in a world of us / them dichotomy in political matters. That, explicitly, is unhealthy.
Politics is increasingly being wired up to tribal, emotional cues, where the first thing people do when confronting a new piece of information is establish which tribe it belongs to, so they can read it with the right frame of mind - confirmation bias both ways.
Precise writing backed by facts and some research is in short supply because it isn't as sticky and engaging, it doesn't get the blood flowing, whether it's raging one way or another.
An article challenging left orthodoxies is far more valuable when written from a rational standpoint than from an explicitly right-wing standpoint.
Politics is increasingly being wired up to tribal, emotional cues, where the first thing people do when confronting a new piece of information is establish which tribe it belongs to, so they can read it with the right frame of mind - confirmation bias both ways.
Precise writing backed by facts and some research is in short supply because it isn't as sticky and engaging, it doesn't get the blood flowing, whether it's raging one way or another.
An article challenging left orthodoxies is far more valuable when written from a rational standpoint than from an explicitly right-wing standpoint.