• itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    PBS spacetime is great, but fuck Sabine Hossenfelder, she loves to pretend to be an expert about things she isn’t qualified to talk about. Like how trans people don’t exist. Or getting basically everything wrong about neurodivergence. She can fuck all the way off

    • joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 days ago

      I feel like the quality of her videos is way down but I am ND and found that video pretty neutral.

      I skimmed a transcript just now because I wanted to understand why people are so disproportionately mad about it. She mentions Autism Speaks and does not immediately condemn it. Is that it? I wouldn’t say that counts as being wrong on everything.

      I’m tired of (especially internet) discourse where shouting which camp you belong to is most important. One good example is when people accused Amnesty of siding with Russia because they reported on Ukrainian warcrimes. Nothing is truly neutral but I much prefer information or thought experiments over the virtue signaling that has taken over the internet.

      You will not convince people to change their mind by shouting in their faces that your point of view is correct. Granted, you usually wont change people’s mind online anyway, except entrenching them deeper into their existing beliefs. I don’t think that is a good thing regardless of the side they take. It leads to seeing fellow humans as monsters just because they are wrong about something.