I’m just not convinced that the radical left has epistemic norms or value priorities that are unusually bad. Imagine you were about to introduce me to five of your friends to talk politics. One identifies as a radical leftist, one a progressive moderate, another a libertarian, the fourth a conservative, and the fifth apolitical. All five of them share a lot of memes on Facebook. They also each have a blog where they write about their political opinions.
I would not be particularly surprised if I had a thoughtful, stimulating conversation with any of them.
My prior is that intellectual profiling based on ideology isn’t a good way to predict how thoughtful somebody is.
So for me, if Wei Dei Jr. turned out to be a 16 year old radical leftist, I wouldn’t think he’s any more conformist than if he’d turned out to be a progressive, libertarian, conservative, or apolitical.
That might just be a crux of disagreement for us based on differing experiences in interacting with each of these groups.
I’m just not convinced that the radical left has epistemic norms or value priorities that are unusually bad. Imagine you were about to introduce me to five of your friends to talk politics. One identifies as a radical leftist, one a progressive moderate, another a libertarian, the fourth a conservative, and the fifth apolitical. All five of them share a lot of memes on Facebook. They also each have a blog where they write about their political opinions.
I would not be particularly surprised if I had a thoughtful, stimulating conversation with any of them.
My prior is that intellectual profiling based on ideology isn’t a good way to predict how thoughtful somebody is.
So for me, if Wei Dei Jr. turned out to be a 16 year old radical leftist, I wouldn’t think he’s any more conformist than if he’d turned out to be a progressive, libertarian, conservative, or apolitical.
That might just be a crux of disagreement for us based on differing experiences in interacting with each of these groups.