Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
by gibba999 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:56PM
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No. It doesn't.
We try this over and over. Racism is an even bigger example. You go from public views to closeted views. Closeted views are usually more harmful. I've been in openly racist environments and in ones with closet racism. Open racists are sometimes easy to ignore, often easy to circumvent, and in some cases, possible to convince. Closeted racists are much more subversive.
You can see the same effects in countries with totalitarian religious regimes, where the religion comes off behind closed doors.
People pretending to follow public health measures when they know they're being watched is a worst-case scenario -- at that point, you can't even do studies on what works.
We try this over and over. Racism is an even bigger example. You go from public views to closeted views. Closeted views are usually more harmful. I've been in openly racist environments and in ones with closet racism. Open racists are sometimes easy to ignore, often easy to circumvent, and in some cases, possible to convince. Closeted racists are much more subversive.
You can see the same effects in countries with totalitarian religious regimes, where the religion comes off behind closed doors.
People pretending to follow public health measures when they know they're being watched is a worst-case scenario -- at that point, you can't even do studies on what works.