I understand your frustration Jesse, and it's gotta be especially personal for you considering how many canards and calumnies were sent your way by the angry dogmatists on the Left.
But with that said, very few public figures ever come out and admit they were wrong about something. Or private figures either. Hell I spent years complaining…
I understand your frustration Jesse, and it's gotta be especially personal for you considering how many canards and calumnies were sent your way by the angry dogmatists on the Left.
But with that said, very few public figures ever come out and admit they were wrong about something. Or private figures either. Hell I spent years complaining the US spent too much of its budget on the military and now I feel we need to deter a rising China and Russia and that requires a strong military. I'm not posting on Facebook "Oh by the way, I was wrong back in 2014 when I said we had more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined and should cut our spending"
Slow down. You don’t make your living advancing, advocating for, or writing about political issues. You’re just a dog on the internet. There are still standards that apply to you but “coherent and consistent positions” isn’t one of them.
Though that logic goes both ways. Because I DON'T make my living this way, it's less important for me to maintain credibility, right? I think some pundits fear, not unreasonably, that they will lose some of their credibility if they retract or publicly reverse their positions. Doesn't make it right, but I do understand it.
Oh and I am not a dog on the internet. I'm a *faun* on the internet.
"I think some pundits fear, not unreasonably, that they will lose some of their credibility if they retract or publicly reverse their positions."
I think so too. I wish they'd understand that such things increase their credibility, and not the other way around. Though I suppose intellectual accountability inhibits their ability to take a scolding or smarmy tone, which seem to be the only modes some of them employ.
I wish that were true but I don’t think so. Ethan Strauss calls it the DADD strategy - don’t apologize, double down. “The public” never accepts apologies, in practice apologizing or correcting just get your name dragged even more through the mud. The smart strategy is, unfortunately, to never publicly apologize or retract.
I understand your frustration Jesse, and it's gotta be especially personal for you considering how many canards and calumnies were sent your way by the angry dogmatists on the Left.
But with that said, very few public figures ever come out and admit they were wrong about something. Or private figures either. Hell I spent years complaining the US spent too much of its budget on the military and now I feel we need to deter a rising China and Russia and that requires a strong military. I'm not posting on Facebook "Oh by the way, I was wrong back in 2014 when I said we had more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined and should cut our spending"
Slow down. You don’t make your living advancing, advocating for, or writing about political issues. You’re just a dog on the internet. There are still standards that apply to you but “coherent and consistent positions” isn’t one of them.
Though that logic goes both ways. Because I DON'T make my living this way, it's less important for me to maintain credibility, right? I think some pundits fear, not unreasonably, that they will lose some of their credibility if they retract or publicly reverse their positions. Doesn't make it right, but I do understand it.
Oh and I am not a dog on the internet. I'm a *faun* on the internet.
"I think some pundits fear, not unreasonably, that they will lose some of their credibility if they retract or publicly reverse their positions."
I think so too. I wish they'd understand that such things increase their credibility, and not the other way around. Though I suppose intellectual accountability inhibits their ability to take a scolding or smarmy tone, which seem to be the only modes some of them employ.
I wish that were true but I don’t think so. Ethan Strauss calls it the DADD strategy - don’t apologize, double down. “The public” never accepts apologies, in practice apologizing or correcting just get your name dragged even more through the mud. The smart strategy is, unfortunately, to never publicly apologize or retract.
Check it out. This guy self-IDs as a fawn.