scientist is publishing a good study. in a vacuum we’re happy about this. it’s a good development. But the headline centers the bad worldview of the editors and maybe laymen.
well yeah, the scientist is an autist, and the editor may or may not be. I’d argue the dichotomy is shown perfectly in this example, actually – autistic scientist publishes research about how autistic people have deep emotional lives, newspaper editor interprets it as “omg autistic people have emotions?!”
I want everybody to stop headline reacting.
then headlines should stop having shitty takes. the fault is not on those reacting to something shitty, it’s on the person doing the shitty thing.
how do you know he’s autistic? I didn’t find anything about it when looking him up. Couldn’t find a social media bio.
I’m not placing moral blame. Doesn’t matter whose “fault” it is. If Marxists are to be effective, we need to understand the world around us, so we should do some investigation. Editors could write better headlines but the bourgeois press was not built to educate leftists.
while you were arguing that marxism means clicking through to articles, I was studying the blade (nah jk that’s a link to the paper the article was based on). the paper’s author states that they’re autistic and they both use and personally prefer identity-first language in their positionality statement:
If Marxists are to be effective, we need to understand the world around us, so we should do some investigation.
I think we may just not agree on this part, comrade – it’s my belief that understanding the likely reasons behind the choice of headline is part of understanding the world around us, and reacting to the headline is a reaction to media bias and, to an extent, the general public’s thought patterns. while reading the article itself is well and good, an evaluation of the headline alone is also valuable.
well yeah, the scientist is an autist, and the editor may or may not be. I’d argue the dichotomy is shown perfectly in this example, actually – autistic scientist publishes research about how autistic people have deep emotional lives, newspaper editor interprets it as “omg autistic people have emotions?!”
then headlines should stop having shitty takes. the fault is not on those reacting to something shitty, it’s on the person doing the shitty thing.
how do you know he’s autistic? I didn’t find anything about it when looking him up. Couldn’t find a social media bio.
I’m not placing moral blame. Doesn’t matter whose “fault” it is. If Marxists are to be effective, we need to understand the world around us, so we should do some investigation. Editors could write better headlines but the bourgeois press was not built to educate leftists.
while you were arguing that marxism means clicking through to articles, I was studying the blade (nah jk that’s a link to the paper the article was based on). the paper’s author states that they’re autistic and they both use and personally prefer identity-first language in their positionality statement:
I think we may just not agree on this part, comrade – it’s my belief that understanding the likely reasons behind the choice of headline is part of understanding the world around us, and reacting to the headline is a reaction to media bias and, to an extent, the general public’s thought patterns. while reading the article itself is well and good, an evaluation of the headline alone is also valuable.
oh nice I couldn’t find it on libgen and tried nothing else
fair enough. have a nice day