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The Four Quadrants of Conformism

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Re: The Four Quadrants of Conformism

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post #665

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> I'm not even asking you to share it, just asking if it exists - do you hold any opinions that you believe to be true, yet you dare not share with anyone for fear that you would lose your job and all social connections if you were to reveal that you held that opinion? This just seems like a trick question to me. If you say yes, then you agree with him; if you say no, you admit you're just a sheep with no independent…

It's not meant to be a trick question - more of a prompt that attempts to trigger someone to have one of the following thoughts "maybe I should be more charitable towards people who have unorthodox ideas, and should encourage other people to be charitable" OR "maybe I'm living in Plato's cave". I'm not trying to get anyone to agree to any particular heresy. Just to acknowledge the fact that every single thing that is…

> Just to acknowledge the fact that every single thing that is taken for granted today (by goodthinkers) was a heresy at some point in the past.

I should have responded to this when I saw it, but this is obviously not true

Re: The Four Quadrants of Conformism

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post #831

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Apparently your impression is that most property damage from rioting has affected small business and home owners. My impression, from both mainstream and fringe media and personal observation, is definitely not that. I doubt we'll settle the disagreement on this point through discussion. ISTM one has to conjure up a quite particular "white anarchist" bad guy to support the "small business" theory. What branch of anar…

> I'm glad we agree that property owned by large corporations and covered by insurance is not something to worry about. I did not say I agreed with that. > since we must constantly distract ourselves from the goals of protests that are manifestly mostly not those things I am doing no such thing. I am simply drawing an important distinction that you appear to be unwilling or unable to draw, between justified protest a…

You're excluding from consideration the category of justified property destruction. "Violence" is a different thing. No one outside the police and a few undercover police want to see kids and old people get injured, maimed, or killed. If police continue to escalate, there will also be violence in the other direction. That's on them.
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