Dean
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Variously accused of being an insufferable reactionary post-modernist fascist neo-conservative neo-liberal conservative classical liberal critical theorist Nazi Zionist imperialist hypernationalist warmongering isolationist Jewish-Polish-Slavic-Anglo race-traitor masculine-feminine bitch-man Fox News boomer. No one yet has guessed a scholar, or multiple people. Add to our list of pejoratives today!
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Dean
Flairless
11hr ago
This is part of what I was thinking when I was trying to gesture that it was mods as a class, not necessarily nara in particular, who can screen the AAQCs. Even if a mod doesn't directly get involved in the AAQC side of thing, so long as nara respects the judgement of mods who felt it appropriate to condemn, that itself can be a de facto if not de jure veto on AAQCs. I suspect it would be harder for uninvolved mods to screen / promote a comment as particularly positive, beyond outright saying in a public post that nara sees when reviewing the discussion from a nomination, but a soft-veto is a pretty easy thing to emerge even without formal coordination.
Dean
Flairless
11hr ago
You don't have to strawman it either, whether you like to or not. Nor do you have to diminish, or exaggerate, the things you do not like just because others do.
Dean
Flairless
18hr ago
That's another example of the sort of motivated reasoning will let people accept and spread as a counter-veiling evidence and a basis to dismiss earlier information, yes. Appeals to personal credulity / experience are easy ways to implicitly dismiss something without having to formally make a claim- it's just another form of 'just asking questions' to raise skepticism, except without the quesitons.
Dean
Flairless
19hr ago
Dropping children off in these places after a major expose doesn't debunk. The lack of children despite parents being in on it was the easily visible indicator of fraud that- having been explicitly identified- is easily rectified afterwards to obfuscate follow-on attention and allow motivated individuals to claim that children were always there.
The sort of motivated people who believe this sort of video 'debunks' are also the sort of people who wouldn't be persuaded by 'systematically eliminating other possibilities,' since motivated reason is under no obligation to conceed that other possibilities were properly eliminated based on whatever trivial grounds they have. They could even invent their own grounds of dismissal, like claiming that the videos were made on holidays or weekends where there would be no children.
It's not like such motivated reasoning against anti-progressive activist exposes are unknown. I'm sure you remember when the planned parenthood videos were dismissed as bad faith and misleading for editing techniques that many of the media organizations critiquing it were using, even as the activists posted the full videos which the media organizations rarely do and went out of their way to ignore in order to insinuate deception without, you know, showing the deception.
Particularly if you hope to stand up to any bully or petty tyrant who would call you a fool.
There will always be people happy to accuse their detractors, political opponents, or outgroup a bunch of idiots.
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