yes!!!

and i think the kind of attitude that @kureshii_ describes moving past here encourages a bad culture of a different kind

it's this defensive, hedging, say-nothing, fake-precise, pedantic, self-interrupting stammer

too many good people are infected https://twitter.com/kureshii_/status/1307899260180901888

there's a kind of fetishizing of objectivity in a lot of these discussions, and it is Bad

the quote tweet below is kind of related but it's a different kind of bad than i have in mind in this thread https://twitter.com/thinkagainer/status/1275462867475726344?s=20

this is how the fetishizing goes wrong imo

1. set up a community that strongly believes in a single objective Truth
2. dunk a lot on and chastise people who mess up that single objective Truth
3. make ppl scared they won't have enough access to Truth to say anything at all

4. congrats, now nobody is comfortable saying much of anything, and goes crazy hedging even statements about what they believe and why for fear of being dunked on later

:'(