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Dan Hochberg's avatar

I hate to reduce someone to a diagnosis, but one does wonder what is going on w/Chandra.

I encounter people like her on Quora from time to time. I hate them. They create a highly charged emotional dialogue, and there is zero chance you are going to be able to engage them or talk them off the ledge. They barely know that you exist, you're just a convenient place for them to spew their outrage. I would like not to admit it, but these people do have the power to upset my day, so it's better just to block them.

The unfortunate truth is that I think of the best replies to people while I am doing other stuff, such as walking around outside.

People are much too emotionally charged up. If we actually cared to solve some of the problems in our country and world, people need to work hard to keep the natural emotional reactions tamped down online and be respectful and gracious.

The fact that people are being fed different information and opinion in their various silos is another contributor to the problem.

An example, on the trans issue, I am convinced that liberal people have nowhere near sufficient information to understand it, because any critique of same is just not permitted on the platforms they use. And if you do critique it on some social media platform, you are a bigot. How do you explain to people that the pervasive sea of information they swim in, not just the news media and politicians but entertainment culture as well, is delivering an inaccurate picture? Though I do believe in trying, trying is huge. Sometimes you must build the altar in one place so the fire can come down somewhere else.

It is good to listen to music while you engage the culture battle, it steadies your head. I alternate between classical and instrumental bluegrass while reading.

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jalZha's avatar

‘The Four Goals of the Woke Left’ V ‘Five Goals of White Men of the Right Wing’ 😂

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