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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Free speech laws like America's 1st Amendment are necessary but not sufficient for free speech. If a community or s… https://t.co/OKSOUiSNsw — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

In mid-century US, division existed between intra-party factions, the national left-right divide, and nationalism a… https://t.co/qDZTdriilV — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

In Idea Lab culture, people love to play with ideas and disagree, and no one takes it personally when someone chall… https://t.co/s5efsSgKch — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

If I told you this boxer was the best boxer in the world, you'd think I was insane. But people do this with their i… https://t.co/JSP8pAC9hL — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Quick history refresher. https://t.co/RbL83FWkoy — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

It's easy to be principled in the yellow zone, when your tribe is behaving admirably. A person's true colors are te… https://t.co/AGAbjPMY9D — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

For millions of years, moths used moonlight for nocturnal navigation. The moth’s brain hasn’t had time to update it… https://t.co/scSnEnvYJk — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

There are 303 visuals in What's Our Problem? Here are 15 of them. First, the path of a maturing thinker. I still o… https://t.co/Yg7rqYFqWO — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Imagine https://t.co/GbMtxHdGYN — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 22, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@sol_orwell @cmsj Half of my book is about this! Much better place to go in depth than Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 22, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

RT @waitbutwhy: Psychologists use a term called "pluralistic ignorance" to describe the phenomenon of "no one believes, but everyone thinks… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 21, 2023 Retweet
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

This thread is a partial excerpt from my book: https://t.co/BnPpcn0RYr — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 21, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@cmsj Cancel culture isn't "public opinion keeping intolerant philosophies in check"—it's "a powerful political gro… https://t.co/ot5FOfoi9x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 21, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

The book: https://t.co/BnPpcn0RYr — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 21, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Yesterday’s thread: https://t.co/KkV6Ycd2JB — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Let's talk about social authoritarianism. We can break low-rung thinkers (those who identify with their ideas, care… https://t.co/HBAtjTZGwm

Posted March 21, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

I want to address this comment on yesterday’s thread because it is a very common retort to my arguments against ide… https://t.co/Mo6H8zqAa6 — PolitiTweet.org

Chris “$8 peasant” Jones @cmsj

@Kavryel @waitbutwhy I don't like blind dogma, but it's unavoidably true that much of the social progress of the la… https://t.co/6c7rpPvheJ

Posted March 21, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

RT @waitbutwhy: Let's talk about social authoritarianism. We can break low-rung thinkers (those who identify with their ideas, care more ab… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 21, 2023 Retweet
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@myssyng_lynx High-rung thinkers don't have an authoritarian instinct, to punish their opposition, because high-run… https://t.co/Tkz4uJcJ9J — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

This is a major concept in my book What's Our Problem? I examine a bunch of examples of idea supremacy up close and… https://t.co/kRtjVZED1q — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Idea supremacy is when only a small group finds a certain idea so vile and dangerous as to warrant coercive silenci… https://t.co/HySW9lBHoO — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

A common retort to this brings up an extreme example (e.g. "oh so we should just let Nazis say they want to kill Je… https://t.co/CEeIK0vSqZ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

If you consider yourself a (lower-case-L) liberal, you should push back against idea supremacy in all its forms. It… https://t.co/9CT0vr8Z3Y — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

This concept helps illuminate the difference between criticism and cancel culture. Criticism attacks ideas, which e… https://t.co/fjf5IxqfHx — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Trying to cancel a talk is one obvious form of idea supremacy. But it also applies to trying to get people fired, r… https://t.co/Fz8sHlTy61 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Low-rung thinkers may not be great at learning, but as long as they don't prevent others from learning, it's fine.… https://t.co/y2CvLfb3wA — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

We can illustrate this by comparing how people react to an upcoming talk by a speaker they disagree with. High-rung… https://t.co/DwCLgsdC51 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

The idea supremacist believes that ideas they disagree with are so vile and dangerous that they must be silenced. T… https://t.co/NLKGqnbmp4 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Non-authoritarians don't enforce their way of thinking on anyone else. The social bully gets angry or offended wit… https://t.co/0MVFM2hsoS — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Let's talk about social authoritarianism. We can break low-rung thinkers (those who identify with their ideas, care… https://t.co/HBAtjTZGwm — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 20, 2023
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

RT @AdamMGrant: Blaming and shaming doesn't stop people from making mistakes. It stops them from admitting mistakes. If people can't share… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 18, 2023 Retweet