Right, it sounds like you mostly get what I’m saying.
I’d quibble that “the people their coalition is forcing to wear masks” are the anti-maskers (since pro-maskers are being nice and obedient, and therefore aren’t being “forced”). It’s pretty easy to slip into contempt for people not respecting your well-deserved authoritah, so that even when they start doing it you think “About fucking time!” and judge them for not doing it earlier or more enthusiastically, instead of showing gratitude for the fact that they’re moving in the right direction. I know I’ve been guilty of it in the past.
I don’t mean to imply that the people behind the ads are to be seen as shitty people, or in this light alone, and I think in the course of describing this perspective which I viewed as needing to be conveyed I may have failed to make that clear. I do actually agree with your take on what they see themselves as doing, and that it’s not entirely illegitimate.
I responded to my own comment trying to lay out better what I meant exactly by “alignment failure” and how “they’re not (meta) trying to be hostile” and “they’re trying to humiliate and degrade” aren’t actually mutually exclusive.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t take you to be asserting that the people behind the ads are shitty people (either unconditionally or conditional on your conjecture about their motives being correct).
Thanks for the feedback. To be clear, I didn’t mean that I inferred that you took it that way, just that after I finished writing I realized I was doing the “pretty critical of people for doing very normal things” thing, and that it often comes off that way if I’m not careful to credibly disclaim that interpretation.
Right, it sounds like you mostly get what I’m saying.
I’d quibble that “the people their coalition is forcing to wear masks” are the anti-maskers (since pro-maskers are being nice and obedient, and therefore aren’t being “forced”). It’s pretty easy to slip into contempt for people not respecting your well-deserved authoritah, so that even when they start doing it you think “About fucking time!” and judge them for not doing it earlier or more enthusiastically, instead of showing gratitude for the fact that they’re moving in the right direction. I know I’ve been guilty of it in the past.
I don’t mean to imply that the people behind the ads are to be seen as shitty people, or in this light alone, and I think in the course of describing this perspective which I viewed as needing to be conveyed I may have failed to make that clear. I do actually agree with your take on what they see themselves as doing, and that it’s not entirely illegitimate.
I responded to my own comment trying to lay out better what I meant exactly by “alignment failure” and how “they’re not (meta) trying to be hostile” and “they’re trying to humiliate and degrade” aren’t actually mutually exclusive.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t take you to be asserting that the people behind the ads are shitty people (either unconditionally or conditional on your conjecture about their motives being correct).
Thanks for the feedback. To be clear, I didn’t mean that I inferred that you took it that way, just that after I finished writing I realized I was doing the “pretty critical of people for doing very normal things” thing, and that it often comes off that way if I’m not careful to credibly disclaim that interpretation.