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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by UncleMeat on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:02AM (#25845904)
Context matters in almost all human communication. And humans are pretty good at negotiating context. Scuba divers won’t lose the symbol. But scuba divers also don’t protect a bunch of people posing with Richard Spencer and making the gesture.
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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by unishark on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:57AM (#25847117)
> And humans are pretty good at negotiating context.

In politics? I think people are pretty bad at understanding context about people they see as having different values. The way you handle uncertainty is to fill in the blanks with prior knowledge, also known as bias. When someone has a bias against the person, that turns quite ugly.

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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by UncleMeat on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:59PM (#25849573)
Less well in politics, but still well enough. Certainly well enough not to be confused about its use when diving.
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