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Here’s the biggest problem. People don’t like to be told they’re incorrect (I sure as hell don’t - I instantly start evaluating just how big the set of people it is I will have to notify of my wrongness, among other things).

This obviously gets in the way when having conversations about anything at all, and I think gets worse the more important that incorrect things it the person who holds the incorrect knowledge. Things like… I don’t know… racism?

Anyway, a John Scalzi post and followup comments from the past few days are relevant and, I think, interesting, and I’ll try to get what I can from them as I move through life.

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