@inquiline One of the things I'm working hard on with my first-year students is how to disagree with someone without calling them "ridiculous," "childish," or "insane." Is this what the internet did to us? It's appalling.
@inquiline I don't think it's just men doing it, but it's almost always women receiving it. I want to bring back good old vanilla disagreement. One doesn't need to denounce or incite violence against or discredit the rationality of another person to have a different idea, right? In my class, an essay we read brought up UBI as an off-handed example of something, and suddenly my students are accusing the author of madness, infantilism, raving delusions. You just disagree. He's not ill.
@inquiline Saw this yesterday and seethed for (with?) you, but wanted to know if you blocked or reported the mothrfckr. Anyway, goddamn those assholes. ♥️
Pleased to report that this lovely person, in an argument with another person (still in my mentions) today, said to that person:
"You are very smart and I'm sure you are an excellent technical debater....I see from your posts that you are a thoughtful person, and I hope you can find ways to channel that into more productive conversations than the one you are trying to guide us into here"
Given that my profile photo marks me pretty clearly as a white dude, I've been 'splained to in the replies an absurd amount lately. (By other white dudes, naturally, but anyway.)
I mean I'm all for egalitarianism, but that wasn't what I had in mind.
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