Something I try to keep in mind about critics is that people who deeply disagree with you are also not usually very invested in what you’re doing, so from their perspective there isn’t much of an incentive to put effort into their criticism. But in theory, the people who disagree with you the most are also the ones you can learn the most from.
You want to be the sort of person where if you’re raised Christian, and an atheist casually criticizes Christianity, you don’t reject the criticism immediately because “they didn’t even take the time to read the Bible!”
I think I have a lot less (true, useful, action-relevant) stuff to learn from a random fundamentalist Christian than from Carl Shulman, even though I disagree vastly more with the fundamentalist than I do with Carl.
I strong-downvoted because because they didn’t bother to even link to the so-called screed. (Forgive me for not blindly trusting throwaway46237896.)
Something I try to keep in mind about critics is that people who deeply disagree with you are also not usually very invested in what you’re doing, so from their perspective there isn’t much of an incentive to put effort into their criticism. But in theory, the people who disagree with you the most are also the ones you can learn the most from.
You want to be the sort of person where if you’re raised Christian, and an atheist casually criticizes Christianity, you don’t reject the criticism immediately because “they didn’t even take the time to read the Bible!”
I think I have a lot less (true, useful, action-relevant) stuff to learn from a random fundamentalist Christian than from Carl Shulman, even though I disagree vastly more with the fundamentalist than I do with Carl.
The original “sneer club” comment?