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NancyLebovitz comments on [LINK] Two Modes of Discourse: Taking everything personally v. debate as sport - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 December 2012 06:31:09PM 5 points [-]

I believe that part of what caused the rise of sensitivity-based discourse is that some people got tired of discourse that seemed to have a premise of "let's calmly consider the plausible claim that the interests of people like you are dispensable", and lost points for showing anger. (Other motives include quite ordinary power-seeking.)

Comment author: ewbrownv 10 December 2012 06:53:09PM 4 points [-]

As an explanation for a society-wide shift in discourse that seems quite implausible. If such a change has actually happened the cause would most likely be some broad cultural or sociological change that took place within the same time frame.