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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The value of being a "hater"

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There a Disagreement on the Internet?

There has been a fundamental breakdown in people's ability to process disagreement and just accept that it's natural or disagree. People get mad when they encounter content that is not just sort of reflecting their own mindset and biases back at them. I see this play out everywhere whether you're talking about like urban planning or Oscar films. When people talk about intellectual ideas or concepts or art especially people have started to kind of use the language of social justice to bolster their own opinions. And I find that very fascinating and also very harmful to social justice causes.

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