Shouldn't we Assess the Value of Life Before we Riot and Punish Police?

[SmartCat]

Possibly, but in reality it’s just that they’re used to Black Lives not mattering because we are a racist ****hole.

"How to Disagree," by Paul Graham

If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well? Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate stages. So here's an attempt at a disagreement hierarchy:

DH0. Name-calling.

This is the lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common. We've all seen comments like this:
u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!
But it's important to realize that more articulate name-calling has just as little weight. A comment like
The author is a self-important dilettante.
is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."

How to Disagree

 

[Aunt Antifa]

"How to Disagree," by Paul Graham

If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well? Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate stages. So here's an attempt at a disagreement hierarchy:

DH0. Name-calling.

This is the lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common. We've all seen comments like this:
u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!
But it's important to realize that more articulate name-calling has just as little weight. A comment like
The author is a self-important dilettante.
is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."

How to Disagree

All those words just to type out a slur twice.


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[Scrabaholic]

I suppose that when you consider he was shot in the back as he walked away from the police, the correct term would murder rather than executed. Second video of Jacob Blake's shooting surfaces - CNN Video

He wasn't murdered, either. He is alive. smh

 

[Gaius46]

They were all produced by the same racist system.

Ergo.

Agree to disagree.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

Agree to disagree.

Tips cap. Curtsies.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

He wasn't murdered, either. He is alive. smh

I know that and you know what the hell I meant and you know as well as I do that when you shoot someone 7 times in the back you are trying to kill them.