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Whatever you think of #harpersletter & #CancelCulture debates, they're about communicative *CONTENT*. But much that ails us comes from *CONTEXT*, which behavioral science can help improve, @philipplenz6 explains, discussing new paper at @Salon: 1/10
salon.com/2020/07/18/rem…
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The paper, "How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online" is by @philipplenz6, @STworg, @CassSunstein & Ralph Hertwig. As the abstract explains the problem: 2/10
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As @philipplenz6 told me, "We need to be careful we don't get into a whack-a-mole game," but instead try "to find solutions that come from the bottom up, to think about how to change the system itself." Key problems are asymmetry of knowledge & intransparency: 3/10
1. The #Harpersletter on free speech is excellent: carefully worded, thoughtful, important. I would wholly subscribe to it. One point where we should dig deeper, though, is the extent to which this is an inter-generational conflict... (short thread)
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2. In many of these cases, it's a new generation (roughly <30, ie born post-1989) who are driving the outrage. Older liberals like me must stand up for vital importance of free debate & tolerance, as #Harpersletter does, but also listen to understand what's behind this protest...
3. I've been discussing this for some years with my students (@onfreespeech @EuropeanMoments). Many of their concerns(eg deep persistence of racism, UK occluding its colonial past) are valid & vital, if garlanded w hyperbole. (But hey, old '68er, remember yr radical youth.)..
