Dear lord no I don’t want to pick a side! That’s the road to brain damage! And I don’t care much about who’s oppressing who, it’s not a very useful frame for looking at things (as if being oppressed made anybody more likely to be right!).
A more interesting question is determining what a disagreement is about, and on what points disagreeing sides can agree. Often loud advocates on either side of a disagreement couldn’t even describe accurately what their opponents think!
Dear lord no I don’t want to pick a side! That’s the road to brain damage! And I don’t care much about who’s oppressing who, it’s not a very useful frame for looking at things (as if being oppressed made anybody more likely to be right!).
This is important and valid. Thank you for saying it. I will reexamine the processes that led to that statement and report back, but this may take a bit of time. Is that acceptable?
Dear lord no I don’t want to pick a side! That’s the road to brain damage! And I don’t care much about who’s oppressing who, it’s not a very useful frame for looking at things (as if being oppressed made anybody more likely to be right!).
A more interesting question is determining what a disagreement is about, and on what points disagreeing sides can agree. Often loud advocates on either side of a disagreement couldn’t even describe accurately what their opponents think!
This is important and valid. Thank you for saying it. I will reexamine the processes that led to that statement and report back, but this may take a bit of time. Is that acceptable?
Sure! These threads are getting kinda tentacular, and I don’t think anybody will be very offended by a lack of answer.
(I’m constantly surprised at how many threads here don’t degenerate into shouting matches)