Suppose modern elevator-gate-y feminism operates a bit like a mafia protection racket: they (the feminists) cream off status and money for themselves by propagating a set of ideas that are clearly ridiculous, but they keep everyone in line by threatening to doxx and shame and generally destroy the reputation of anyone who challenges them. A small group of Rebecca Watsons could dominate a much larger group of Slytherin Rationalists if all the Slytherins aren’t prepared to take even a small risk to stand up for what they believe in.
You’re absolutely right. I don’t know of any good coordinative solution to this that doesn’t look more like people sticking their necks out and getting guillotined in sequence.
You can “prepare the ground” to some extent, but really what that means is that you take the slow route to unfriending the person rather than the fast route. You want to hang around in your free time with someone who you have to constantly filter yourself around and construct elaborate lies for? I didn’t think so....
I find it’s much easier to do this kind of thing in real life. If you really want to talk about some unusual belief, you can always calibrate your approach based on the initial position of the person you’re trying to talk to. On the Internet (which is where this type of thing usually goes wrong) you’re usually posting semi-contextualized text in public. It’s almost doomed to failure.
Well it isn’t as if this is the first time ever that humans have had to coordinate on something. The usual tricks would include creating anti-SJW movements, setting up an alternative status-structure with its own reward and punishment mechanisms, giving power and status to key people who challenge SJWs.
You’re absolutely right. I don’t know of any good coordinative solution to this that doesn’t look more like people sticking their necks out and getting guillotined in sequence.
I find it’s much easier to do this kind of thing in real life. If you really want to talk about some unusual belief, you can always calibrate your approach based on the initial position of the person you’re trying to talk to. On the Internet (which is where this type of thing usually goes wrong) you’re usually posting semi-contextualized text in public. It’s almost doomed to failure.
Well it isn’t as if this is the first time ever that humans have had to coordinate on something. The usual tricks would include creating anti-SJW movements, setting up an alternative status-structure with its own reward and punishment mechanisms, giving power and status to key people who challenge SJWs.