huh.
It’s just occurred to me that one of the biggest problems in online discourse - namely, a lack of knowledge about our interlocutor/s leading to false assumptions - is likely exacerbated by our collective experience with an age-segregated school system. In any vaguely educational context, we’re used to assuming that the other person is about our age, because that’s how school always works, and the quasi-anonymous nature of the internet makes that easy. But it can also be a dangerous assumption to make, particularly in the case of adults yelling at teenagers.
Just. I know it’s really easy to assume that the people you’re talking to or arguing with are automatically in the same place as you, but erring on the side of caution, or at least trying to check, is probably a good habit to get into.
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Of course this ALSO means we’re used to assuming the other person is really similar to us in terms of context and...
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