>You're not coming across any kind of deep revelation by saying it.
That's subjective. From your perspective it might be obvious. Doesn't mean the same is true for everyone. It's solipsistic to assume otherwise.
>We're doing our best.
Not really. I'd say most people are barely putting in any effort in general and even more so in this case specifically. Maybe you and I are trying our best, but "we" the people aren't trying our best at all.
There are no mass protests, voting participation is low, I don't really see any large scale civil disobedience going on. The message is clearly "it's alright, they're Arabs." Can't really expect anything else with American exceptionalism and individualism.
Just a technical issue, right? Nothing going on there.
Second highest score and comment count and it's barely on the first page. There are over 10 submissions that have the same age and a much lower score and comment count that are all near the top of the page.
I just refreshed the page and it's gone from the first page. 900+ votes, 350+ comments. Just gone.
Another empty statement, I assume. Man, I keep saying nothing today.
In what way was the discussion here "heated"? How do you measure it? It quickly becomes subjective, doesn't it? If you know what constitute heated, it's not hard to make it heated as a third party, I'd say. Or if you have access to the back end, you just make it heated and claim it is. It's all concealed after all.
Why even demote a heated discussion? What good does that do? "Ah people disagree, quick, let's remove it." Lots of room for play. Maybe you are right. Maybe I am.
>Be careful about jumping to some kind of conspiracy theory for explanations. It's not healthy.
You don't have to worry about my paranoia, I'm well aware of how it functions, why it does what it does and how to prevent it from going wrong. I'm comfortable with that. The opposite is just as true, by the way.
You on the other hand are claiming to know what is or isn't worth knowing for others, you have no problem calling the careful thoughts of others "conspiracy theories" and try to warn people about health issues, without any inquiry or verification if that applies or not. And when you're corrected or disagreed with you just decide to ignore it and go after another thing you think is wrong with someone else.
What is it you want? Growth of others? Or growth of yourself? Or both? Because from where I'm standing you're trying to give to me what I already have, but you don't take for yourself. I know what my self deception looks like. Do you in which ways you self deceive? Because from where I'm viewing it, you're oblivious to it.
And I wouldn't even have bothered bringing that up if you actually gave me something I could use. I doubt my observations, it's what allows me to see the world in all its shades of grey and see the wiggle room in the details. You only seem to be dealing in certainty and absolutes.
It keeps the world simple, that it does. And accurate enough for you to use with minimal anxiety and I'm sure it paid off for you, again and again confirming you are right. But that doesn't mean it reflects our complex reality any closer than my approach. You are simply more biased.
>The biggest mistake people make with this mental model is to assume it reasonable to transpose a philosophico-scientific principle to messy day-to-day challenges. It may also be used as a way to gloss over complex but crucial components in an argument, thus falling prey to confirmation bias—our natural tendency to interpret information in a way that affirms our prior hypotheses.
Anyway, take it or leave it. I just saw what you were doing and wanted to make you aware. It's up to you to accept that or not. As you learn more and more, you're going to hit the limitations of your linear approach more and more (like happened here). The only way forward is to switch paradigm.
That's subjective. From your perspective it might be obvious. Doesn't mean the same is true for everyone. It's solipsistic to assume otherwise.
>We're doing our best.
Not really. I'd say most people are barely putting in any effort in general and even more so in this case specifically. Maybe you and I are trying our best, but "we" the people aren't trying our best at all.
There are no mass protests, voting participation is low, I don't really see any large scale civil disobedience going on. The message is clearly "it's alright, they're Arabs." Can't really expect anything else with American exceptionalism and individualism.
Also, check this out:
https://imgur.com/a/aBjdHH5
Just a technical issue, right? Nothing going on there.
Second highest score and comment count and it's barely on the first page. There are over 10 submissions that have the same age and a much lower score and comment count that are all near the top of the page.
I just refreshed the page and it's gone from the first page. 900+ votes, 350+ comments. Just gone.
Another empty statement, I assume. Man, I keep saying nothing today.