I didn’t mean Musk! I can’t stand him but I could see what he was saying with his initial tweet. Re: audience capture resistance I meant that you had dissenting opinions from a variety of sources (including influential in-group) but instead of capitulating, you presented good reasoning for your stance.
Side-bar, are there more anti-semites on Twitter lately or did this issue just draw them out of the woodwork?
Ah, that audience capture! I'm not sure about impervious but I'm a stubbornly opinionated guy, which helps.
Is there in an increase? If there is, I don't think it's huge. There were plenty of them in the before times. I notice a bit more conspiracy mongering in general, but that also may just be who I happen to see.
It is admittedly a difficult area to navigate. Driving a VW bug doesn't make one antiSemitic, even though the car was first designed under the auspices of the Nazis. At what point was it no longer a Nazi car but just a car? At what point is a quote no longer a Nazi quote but just a quote?
or even not a "quote" so much as an idea? I think there are issues with the original line of thought, which Musk's joke about sick kids clearly highlights.
But the idea that we have "sacred castes" in different parts of society that are held to be beyond criticism is not a new one, or one that people should not express.
I don't think "special exceptions" for Nazis are even needed here. The original quote was wrong-headed in the first place, even when it was misattributed to Voltaire. I wouldn't be quoting any wise sayings from Kevin Strom because he doesn't have any.
Nice to see that you remain impervious to audience capture 🙌
Being mean to Musk? I barely laid a glove on him!
I didn’t mean Musk! I can’t stand him but I could see what he was saying with his initial tweet. Re: audience capture resistance I meant that you had dissenting opinions from a variety of sources (including influential in-group) but instead of capitulating, you presented good reasoning for your stance.
Side-bar, are there more anti-semites on Twitter lately or did this issue just draw them out of the woodwork?
Ah, that audience capture! I'm not sure about impervious but I'm a stubbornly opinionated guy, which helps.
Is there in an increase? If there is, I don't think it's huge. There were plenty of them in the before times. I notice a bit more conspiracy mongering in general, but that also may just be who I happen to see.
It is admittedly a difficult area to navigate. Driving a VW bug doesn't make one antiSemitic, even though the car was first designed under the auspices of the Nazis. At what point was it no longer a Nazi car but just a car? At what point is a quote no longer a Nazi quote but just a quote?
or even not a "quote" so much as an idea? I think there are issues with the original line of thought, which Musk's joke about sick kids clearly highlights.
But the idea that we have "sacred castes" in different parts of society that are held to be beyond criticism is not a new one, or one that people should not express.
I don't think "special exceptions" for Nazis are even needed here. The original quote was wrong-headed in the first place, even when it was misattributed to Voltaire. I wouldn't be quoting any wise sayings from Kevin Strom because he doesn't have any.