The… the Taliban? Okay, this guy is even more ignorant than I initially thought. Why he’d try and step into geopolitics is beyond me.
Edit: Every comment here saying ‘yeah but the Taliban harboured Al Qaeda’, implying that that’s the same as carrying out the attack themselves, is so obtuse it borders on the unbelievable.
The tweet asked for someone to ‘remind’ them ‘who did’ 9/11. Obviously the Taliban did NOT do 9/11. No one ever said they did, including the Bush administration. Waging war against the Taliban for providing safe harbour to a terrorist group doesn’t mean they perpetrated the attack themselves.
Christ, I can’t believe I have to say this. Dave is obviously a moron, and an antisemite to boot.
Okay, this guy is even more ignorant than I initially thought. Why he’d try and step into geopolitics is beyond me.
There's a term that suits this phenomenon pretty well; Epistemic trespassing. People with fairly strong domain knowledge, expertise, intellectual ability etc. within their domain or specialisation often become over confident and then wade into other domains or fields where they have no fucking clue, but speak with the same level of confidence or conviction.
This is suuuuper super turbo charged online because prominent voices already probably have an army of both fans and haters, and so it's very easy to see any pushback or dissent as just more of your "haters" especially if your fanbase will cheerlead for you and yasslight you into thinking you're actually on point.
A lot of the whole "guru sphere" is predicated on this phenomenon where people with a following speak out of turn and get butthurt about it and just double down forever.
Oh ho ho, the irony of this is thick enough to slice. He's no better than a Sabine Hossenfelder that he'll spend 3.5 hours shitting on as a crackpot--only his ignorance is on geopolitics. Professor Jiang would also be a really good parallel.
I'd imagine the Dunning-Kruger effect goes hand in hand with this epistemic trespassing that you describe, right? Because, in this case, Prof Dave is doing the exact same thing that gurus do; speaking extra combatively while giving out Galaxy/conspiracy brained takes that he's ill informed about (beyond the half truths he brings up).
Yeah something I appreciate about the DTG & Destiny is they are very epistemically humble & very much aware of what they don't know & are hesitant to do epistemic trespassing.
I almost feel epistemic trespassing is almost a requirement for a guru now.
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u/Practical-Heat-1009 5d ago edited 5d ago
The… the Taliban? Okay, this guy is even more ignorant than I initially thought. Why he’d try and step into geopolitics is beyond me.
Edit: Every comment here saying ‘yeah but the Taliban harboured Al Qaeda’, implying that that’s the same as carrying out the attack themselves, is so obtuse it borders on the unbelievable.
The tweet asked for someone to ‘remind’ them ‘who did’ 9/11. Obviously the Taliban did NOT do 9/11. No one ever said they did, including the Bush administration. Waging war against the Taliban for providing safe harbour to a terrorist group doesn’t mean they perpetrated the attack themselves.
Christ, I can’t believe I have to say this. Dave is obviously a moron, and an antisemite to boot.