> I think we do a pretty good job of educating people who are already educated—people inside the coastal bubbles
I wish the people doing communications like this would get some minimal training about how to avoid alienating and unhelpful generalizations like this.
Implying that people in “coastal bubbles” are educated and everyone is not is a great way to turn the people you want to reach against you. This is a prime example of the “coastal elites” mentality that turns so many people off. It’s also completely disingenuous to pretend that coastal people are immune to the anti-science takes, as anyone who was spent time in those cities can tell you.
Can we please just stick to the issue and not leap into unnecessary divisions and finger pointing before we even get started?
Edit: The rest of the article spends so much time talking about 19th century history of food safety and things like “eugenicist individualizing” that it’s hard to pick out what this article is claiming, other than being one very long and disconnected rant.
ausbah · 4h ago
50% of voting Americans wanted this. sucks that we now have to bootstrap basic things like food hygiene because some people’s feelings were hurt bc experts are too mean or something about owning liberals
donnachangstein · 4h ago
If a source resorts to ad hominems and name calling in the very first sentence then it immediately loses all credibility. Sorry.
Edit: 3 minutes and already at -4. Is that what this site has devolved into? Fuck the rules when we hate the target of our derision?
happytoexplain · 4h ago
It depends on how extreme the target is. As with all things, there's a line.
I wish the people doing communications like this would get some minimal training about how to avoid alienating and unhelpful generalizations like this.
Implying that people in “coastal bubbles” are educated and everyone is not is a great way to turn the people you want to reach against you. This is a prime example of the “coastal elites” mentality that turns so many people off. It’s also completely disingenuous to pretend that coastal people are immune to the anti-science takes, as anyone who was spent time in those cities can tell you.
Can we please just stick to the issue and not leap into unnecessary divisions and finger pointing before we even get started?
Edit: The rest of the article spends so much time talking about 19th century history of food safety and things like “eugenicist individualizing” that it’s hard to pick out what this article is claiming, other than being one very long and disconnected rant.
Edit: 3 minutes and already at -4. Is that what this site has devolved into? Fuck the rules when we hate the target of our derision?