When steelmanning I think it would be helpful to start with defining the claim you want to steelman. Steelmanning is about starting with a claim and then arguing for it.
It isn’t about engaging a topic and trying to dig up an uncontroversial claim that might be held by some people.
I think argument is that even if you don’t necessarily accept all of the fears or worries held by some within the social justice sphere, failing to emphasise with these emotions may simply make people feel them more strongly. And so that certain requests that might seem unreasonable might not actually be unreasonable keeping this in mind.
When steelmanning I think it would be helpful to start with defining the claim you want to steelman. Steelmanning is about starting with a claim and then arguing for it.
It isn’t about engaging a topic and trying to dig up an uncontroversial claim that might be held by some people.
I think argument is that even if you don’t necessarily accept all of the fears or worries held by some within the social justice sphere, failing to emphasise with these emotions may simply make people feel them more strongly. And so that certain requests that might seem unreasonable might not actually be unreasonable keeping this in mind.
If that’s the argument then the failure to make that argument explicitly points towards the post being badly written. It’s not a defense of the post.