For a bit more primary source, here’s some Duncan quotes from his post atop the second FB thread:
I focused yesterday’s conversation on what I suspected would be a minority viewpoint which might be lost in a rush to judgment. I wanted to preserve doubt, where doubt is often underpreserved, and remind people to gather as much information as they could before setting their personal opinions. I was afraid people would think that helping those who were suffering necessarily meant hurting Brent—that it was inextricably a zero-sum game.
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I want to reorient now to something that I underweighted yesterday, and which is itself desperately important, and which I hope people will participate in with as much energy:
Are there concrete things I can do to help Persephone?
Are there concrete things I can do to help T?
Are there concrete things I can do to help other people in a similar boat?
Are there concrete things I can do to stop others from ending up in that same boat?
I also had nothing to do with the Burning Man group (have never been to Burning Man, came out to a beach in San Francisco once along with [a dozen other people also otherwise not involved with that group] to see a geodesic dome get partially assembled?) and the confidence with which that user asserts this falsehood seems relevant.
For a bit more primary source, here’s some Duncan quotes from his post atop the second FB thread:
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I also had nothing to do with the Burning Man group (have never been to Burning Man, came out to a beach in San Francisco once along with [a dozen other people also otherwise not involved with that group] to see a geodesic dome get partially assembled?) and the confidence with which that user asserts this falsehood seems relevant.