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Rationally Speaking #230 - Kelsey Piper on “Big picture journalism: covering the topics that matter in the long run”

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How to Engage Effectively With a Bad Argument

I think the most important thing you need to be able to do is imagine you have an audience reading this post and they flinch when they read the awkward inflammatory unreasonable framing. And I think if you have a good sense of your audience and you have an accurate like well calibrated sense of who's flinching, then you can be highly effective by articulating it for them. So that the sort of way it goes wrong is if you don't actually get what what people are sort of hoping will be said.

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