A good thread. It dovetails with other advice I’ve seen about standing up to bad behavior online and in public: it’s not necessarily about winning over the source of the bad behavior, it’s more often about showing solidarity with the target and being a positive influence on bystanders observing.
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Something I was very proud of: I kneecapped (or so I thought) Graham Hancock by going on his Wikipedia page one day and noting that he was pushing pseudoscience. Someone reverted that, and this led to a minor edit war which ended w him and some fellow loonies tagged pretty irrevocably as charlatans-
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