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handednessyesterday at 12:12 AM1 replyview on HN

If it's intellectual engagement you want, how about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

It's far better to respect people's ability to reach their own conclusions about things. If someone sends me media and tells me in advance what I should think of it, it devalues my estimation of them more than it does of the media in question (which I try to keep an open mind about).


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gpmyesterday at 4:47 AM

No what I want is for people to not advocate for crimes against humanity like taking hundreds of thousands of people (in their own words) and ripping them away from their homes and sending them to a country that some of them have never even been to and won't speak that language in our have legal status in or so on.

And barring that I would like other people to not direct people to the first group of people's propaganda and writings as if it was a valuable thing to read in itself and to suggest that you might agree with them.

And barring that I would like people to not refer to the above as "intellectual engagement" and defend it on those terms when it is nothing of the sort because there is no engagement.