[2006alum]

Just noticed that KWJ posted a follow-up on Instagram (see below). Umm, I'm not sure she made the situation any better for herself...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2JSRhllw9/

WTF does a truce mean when it comes to mask wearing? Either you think people should wear them or you don't. There is no truce. Or to paraphrase Yoda, "Do or do not, there is no tr[uce]."

Judas Priest.  Her post was about more than just masks.  She just wanted to tamp down the rhetoric.

But that’s impossible these days. So it’s not enough to suggest that she’s wrong. She’s now a bad person. Etc. etc. etc. What a bunch of horseshit

1. I didn't call her a bad person, I said her take was stupid and incoherent. Please don't put words in my mouth. 

2. Calling someone's viewpoint "a bunch of horseshit" is, IMHO, both rhetorically hollow and not exactly ideal in what is typically a family friendly forum.

3. If you can genuinely explain to me what a truce looks like as a coherent concept when the debate is over whether we should be required to wear masks in public/indoor settings, I'd genuinely welcome it. To me, the issue seems to have become intractable precisely because there is no easy way to reach a compromise.

More broadly: Yes, I do think social media will be the downfall of our society. But since almost everyone keeps at it no matter how lonely and angry anti-social media makes them, how rational can we really say we are, anyway?

[2006alum]

Just noticed that KWJ posted a follow-up on Instagram (see below). Umm, I'm not sure she made the situation any better for herself...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2JSRhllw9/

WTF does a truce mean when it comes to mask wearing? Either you think people should wear them or you don't. There is no truce. Or to paraphrase Yoda, "Do or do not, there is no tr[uce]."

Judas Priest.  Her post was about more than just masks.  She just wanted to tamp down the rhetoric.

But that’s impossible these days. So it’s not enough to suggest that she’s wrong. She’s now a bad person. Etc. etc. etc. What a bunch of horseshit

1. I didn't call her a bad person, I said her take was stupid and incoherent. Please don't put words in my mouth. 

2. Calling someone's viewpoint "a bunch of horseshit" is, IMHO, both rhetorically hollow and not exactly ideal in what is typically a family friendly forum.

3. If you can genuinely explain to me what a truce looks like as a coherent concept when the debate is over whether we should be required to wear masks in public/indoor settings, I'd genuinely welcome it. To me, the issue seems to have become intractable precisely because there is no easy way to reach a compromise.

More broadly: Yes, I do think social media will be the downfall of our society. But since almost everyone keeps at it no matter how lonely and angry anti-social media makes them, how rational can we really say we are, anyway?