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[feotakahari]

Earlgraytay posted:

"In the sense that if two groups of people are screaming very, very loudly about something, I tend to assume that both groups of people are rabid extremists and that unless there’s a very good reason to believe one group over the other it’s best to assume they’re not getting the full picture."

I just want to note that this seems suspiciously spoofable. If a group (say, the Internet Research Agency) can pose as people who believe in a cause and are screaming about it, then they can convince you that people who believe in that cause are all screaming, and therefore that you shouldn't be listening to anyone who talks about that cause.

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[zenolalia]

Yeah, that kind of assumption is really a poor foundation for any kind of conclusion.

When HomeSec came to my house and tore up my carpets and slammed me against the wall and cuffed me to my porch, you can bet your ass I was screaming just as loud as they were, and one of us was in the right, whereas one of us was a racist organization terrorizing a 20 year old based on crimes committed by someone else when they were 11. And yet, to my neighbors, I'm sure it looked very much like "two groups screaming incoherently at each other."

The same is true about anything--literally anything--where one group is suffering an imminent threat. Threats up your emotional response, and that tends to manifest as screaming.

But the fact that people have emotions doesn't somehow make them wrong, and to assume that anyone having An Emotion is just ignorant is, well, ignorant.