"Project Include" is evocative of "Ministry of Truth": a name crafted to narrate reality. I'm consistently amused by how little self-awareness identity politicians exhibit.
Yeah, I found that blog post really thought provoking.
I think the core idea was that "it is a virtue to tolerate the outgroup" often means, in American middle-class culture, "if you are on Team Republican, do not stop associating with members of Team Democrat, no matter how much your friends and media tell you all those people are evil idiots" and vice versa.
This is an interesting normative take on what you might call the "filter bubble moral panic" of the 2000s, a growing fear that people who don't agree with each other are experiencing totally separate and disconnected realities.
The thing everyone's afraid of seems to be that in this new world, democracy will effectively become impossible because the ruling majority party will always be ignorant of (or totally unsympathetic to) the interests of the minority. Is the risk overblown? I dunno; how actually bad is a government shutdown, a half-year delay in Zika containment funding, etc.? Hard to say if these times are really worse and if "ignoring the other team" is really to blame.
Some other content in this vein that was interesting reading:
* The Shadow University -- a 1999 nonfiction book of essays about how, at American universities, concepts like "academic freedom" and "the marketplace of ideas" have entered a tension with other concepts (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060977728)
* The Five Geek Social Fallacies -- a 2003 essay influential among some software-as-a-lifestyle people I know, which argues most memorably that is is a popular fallacy to believe "ostracizers are evil", http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
By being bad at her job as CEO through having no idea what redditors wanted of the site and by trying to force particular cultural norms.
Was reddit ruined? About as much as anything so abstract that it can reinvent itself, back peddle, and change direction at a board meetings notice can be ruined.
I don't think that's true. A sycophant is motivated by the desire for advancement, and is typically insincere. Smithers is sincere and motivated by love, which makes him much more interesting.
It wouldn't be appropriate if every immigrant were a refugee. But, categorically, this is false:
“The number one reason why people leave Syria is not the bombs or the food or the cold, it’s because they want to find educational opportunities for their children,” Mr. Møller explains. “Every refugee is a migrant. Not every migrant is a refugee.” [ http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/15/un-director-admit... ]
"Project Include" is evocative of "Ministry of Truth": a name crafted to narrate reality. I'm consistently amused by how little self-awareness identity politicians exhibit.