While trying to assess whether the Generation Tech substack was anti-trans, 3 of her posts hang together in a way that confirms a bias of mine:
• Young liberals used to be the most supportive of free speech. Now they’re the least. https://www.generationtechblog.com/p/young-liberals-used-to-be-the-most • Why more young men voted for Trump https://www.generationtechblog.com/p/why-more-young-men-voted-for-trump • It's not just you: Americans are still not hanging out https://www.generationtechblog.com/p/its-not-just-you-americans-are-still I've ranted about the loss of third places quite a bit on this list. Sorry. But it seems to me that my online interactions skew toward "college educated" and my meat space interactions skew toward "working class" *because* of my choice of third place -- pubs. Of course, were I the type to hang out in video game fora and places like 4chan/Twitter, then my online interactions might skew differently. In densely layered feedback spaces, shaming and negative reinforcement work very well. But if we're mostly "atomized", that thin layer of feedback is either insufficient or has to take extreme/pathological forms in order to work. It seems dangerously obvious [⛧] that people who *hang out* a LOT will be more tolerant of Bad speech because there's plenty of feedback(s) that can dampen it, correct it. But in an environment where nobody hangs out, or hangs out very little, or only when they're in a Good Mood, there'd be more pressure for safe spaces, Codes of Conduct, etc. On the one hand, my tribe is college educated white men. But on the other hand, it seems (again dangerously) obvious that it's kinda stupid to get a college degree nowadays. Learn a trade like electrician, plumbing, welding, etc. first. Then you can afford to pay for night school to get your degree in basket weaving, journalism, or nuclear engineering. And your time in the apprenticeship just *might* thicken your skin a little ... to everything from butt cracks to racist slurs to seriously gross globs of ... whatever it is you have to dig out of that hole. (Forgive me. We have a rat we've named Houdini living under our fridge. I follow a heteroclinic orbit w.r.t. that little guy.) [⛧] If it's not clear, it's dangerous because I tend to believe it. Any time I don't doubt some thing, I find that thing more suspicious than if I do doubt it. ⊥ □ -- ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα σώσω.
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