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The other thing that this essay points out is that most of these controversies are ostensibly about one thing when they are really about another. This is why I find most political discussions so tiresome. 1/ https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1339992242438746114
We have a huge, well-oiled system that goes to work on any given event, cranking out Content that fits it into one of several templates. There's the Sexism Template, the Racism Template, the Inequality Template, etc. 2/
By the time normal people get around to discussing the issue, the template has already been selected, and respectable people are expected to discuss the matter within the given template. 3/
So the Epstein piece on Jill Biden uses the Sexism Template, and the "fuckers" controversy uses the "Hypocrisy Template ("the GOP is angry about profanity after 4 years of Trump. Ha!") 4/
Once you begin to recognize these templates, you realize you've been given a script to read, and (if you're independent-minded) you reject the script. But then 5/
You have two options: (1) Remain silent; or (2) Try to rewire the other person's brain so that they too can see the templates/script. But (2) is exhausting, time-consuming and usually doesn't work anyway. Which leads us to: 6/
God, it feels good to have written that out. I know it's not an original idea, but I don't think I fully internalized it until now.
