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Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States by jacobush on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:03AM (#21080949)
"reasonable" -> "unreasonable"
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Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States by dsfyu404ed on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:15AM (#21081047)
"reasonable" <-> "unreasonable"

It's a two way street. Gay marriage (for example) used to be unreasonable.

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Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States by jacobush on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:19AM (#21081073)
He probably meant to write unreasonable. Was what I was trying to point out. But your comment is good too. :-)
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Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States by cannam on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:41AM (#21081305)
It's a slightly ambiguous parse.

> we slowly start to see ideas we once would have rejected out of hand as "reasonable" only after...

I think you parsed it as

> we slowly start to see (ideas we once would have rejected out of hand as "reasonable") only after

and concluded that "unreasonable" was intended.

But I think the proper parse is

> we slowly start to see (ideas we once would have rejected out of hand) as "reasonable" only after

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Re:Public Opinion in Authoritarian States by lostlogin on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:54PM (#21083477)
A literal reasonable argument.

Bizarre how it can work either way - thanks for pointing this out.

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