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11 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I'm curious whether /r/Catholicism will survive on Reddit, given that Catholic dogma on homosexuality and related matters conflicts with burgeoning progressive notions of (un)acceptable speech. Reddit's "Anti-Evil Operations" is in play... reddit.com/r/Catholicism/…
seems like a @roddreher column in the making...
(contextual side note: I'm not Catholic, but I deeply respect Catholicism both in theory and practice, even when I diverge from it)
(another side note: can you believe that Reddit actually calls its censorship team "Anti-Evil Operations"? y'know, people cite 1984 so often because Orwell's satire is near-astonishingly on-the-nose. in a sense we have Stalin to thank for that...)

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I think it's tragically under-acknowledged that your epistemological approach *ought* to be different depending on your goal(s)

in other words, what you *should* identify as truth, versus discard as false negative or false positive, depends on the endeavor that you're pursuing
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20 Jul 20
please stop being surprised that you can't outsource your judgment

listen to podcasts to find out what other people think, not (necessarily) what is true
this is a large reason why I don't talk about object-level politics very often

I know that I can't outsource my judgment, and I'm usually not willing to do a five-hour deep dive on the primary evidence concerning whatever the controversy is
people use shortcuts to evaluate informational validity, and it just straight-up doesn't work fam

they linked a bunch of sources? cool, awesome, but you're trusting them to have understood those sources

try a little "science journalism" and you'll see how this fails
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it's more performant to believe — or at least say — that you never incur collateral damage in pursuit of your righteous cause. so people do! the falsity doesn't negate the advantage
if there's an advantage to belief X or rhetoric Y, the truth value will be treated as irrelevant instrumentally — but all the while paid lip service with apparently earnest fury
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"propriety for me but not for thee" ain't gonna fly anymore 😏

Lorenz: "The whole idea that the very ethical and talented women who write these stories (who she basically demeans) do so for 'clicks' is misguided and wrong."

1) lol at the idea that traffic doesn't dictate
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2) you could not be cattier if you tried

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this is *exactly* what @L0m3z was getting at: americanmind.org/features/the-c…
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