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zebra2  ·  1385 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

I was tempted to quote the same block of text. Who could have been paying attention the past 4 or 5 years and thought "the way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion"? This shit has been thoroughly warped into the "both sides" fallacy. It turns out people as whole are pretty terrible at assessing the merits of ideas. Or the values of facts. There's been freakin' studies on that.