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2026-05-04 19:48 UTC
@laguiri yes! Great examples!
Each of those I notice equates the other person to a child, mentally ill person, disabled person, or infectious person respectively— so that you can feel superior to/disdainful of them and not have to care what they think.
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@Tattie@eldritch.cafe 2026-05-05 13:57
Another thought-terminating cliché is "I just believe in the null hypothesis" and "you have burden of proof". No. You have plenty of beliefs about the nature of the universe, reality, truth, self, etc, and it's your responsibility to inspect and justify them. I've long noticed how the "burden of proof" is general put upon the minority, with the white, cishet, middle-class Western dude's beliefs held as somehow "default".