Re: The mess we're in is due to decades of elite groupthink reflected by the Guardian & its ilk Archived Message
Posted by Shyaku on August 19, 2022, 7:25 am, in reply to "Re: The mess we're in is due to decades of elite groupthink reflected by the Guardian & its ilk"
Margo, Nobody has ever been drummed off this board in my name. I don’t feel I need protecting in that way :-) There were irreconcilable points of view, but I think the only issue would be if one side felt they were definitely, manifestly, obviously correct, and therefore when they are/were unable to sway opinion by sheer strength of their convictions they then felt this must be due to systemic bias. Personally, I don’t think there was systemic bias: I just think that different people come at various issues with greatly different emphasis in terms of what is important to them. And I personally have no problem with that: There was a group of people here who wanted to discuss a particular point of view, and I recall they very much did. I could sense what you refer to as self-censoring, and I think it is sad when articulate and interesting people feel that way, while dull, very repetitious people do not :-) If you get my drift. Best regards as ever, Shyaku.
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