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> It's as if someone, somewhere, is trying to spread emotionally charged, outrage inducing, anti-intellectual ideas designed to short circuit discourse.

Scott covered that also:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

The way people are starting to behave, that story actually doesn't seem all that hard to believe anymore.



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