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Comment author: pragmatist 04 August 2013 05:32:20PM *  4 points [-]

If you could write up an intelligent post arguing for progressivism, then you would probably get a lot farther on convincing the far-right faction of this site than by telling them they are evil for holding their beliefs without giving reasons as to why.

I doubt this very much. The differences between the far-right faction and the progressives (among whom I count myself) on this website are not primarily of the sort that can be bridged by intelligent argument, for a number of reasons.

If Multiheaded wrote a post of the kind you recommend with the intent of convincing LW conservatives, it would be a wasted effort. Also, I'm pretty sure a post of that sort would be heavily downvoted, and not just by people who disagree with him politically.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 August 2013 02:14:42AM *  5 points [-]

I doubt this very much. The differences between the far-right faction and the progressives (among whom I count myself) on this website are not primarily of the sort that can be bridged by intelligent argument, for a number of reasons.

Wrong. I used to be a reasonable, well adjusted progressive, even a quite ideologically passionate one (leaning towards anarchism). Moldbug's intelligent analysis (for all its flaws) convinced me that I was wrong. I can't be the only one who is capable of responding to argument.

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