Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?
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This is what I do:
put importance on empirical results and logic & axioms. So far I've never been called problematic for that.
use mistake theory. Act as if conflict theory is a blind spot I have. Make my opponent explicitly state their C.T. positions.
frame as if I am wanting to learn.
explicitly state positions that are too inferentially-distant to be clocked as problematic.
The one time I experimented by not doing this, I got yelled at, so generally speaking I think these pointers work. I'd say I learned what not to do in that scenario.
This might not work for everyone. For example, wanting to learn can be a cancellable offense ("Just Asking Questions", "Go Educate Yourself"), but it helps if you're debating your friends, who think you're an ally. (I still haven't decided if I'm actually fooling anyone with my less-than-enthused attitude towards the Movement. I also haven't decided what's worse: I'm fooling people or it always has been about humiliation. Could I fool myself?)
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