Ben Burgis

“Good reasoning isn't primarily about being loud and confident and good on your feet. Those are skills worth developing⁠—as humans, we're built to respond to all of that⁠—but those aren't the things that make people good reasoners. The right-wing Logic Brigades give people the impression that caring about logic means dogmatically applying a few simple principles to everything and ignoring the fine-grained contextual differences between superficially similar situations. That's exactly wrong. If you actually care about getting the arguments right, you need to slow the hell down and pay attention to the subtleties.”
― Ben Burgis, Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left

“Inside the walls of the VC, everyone tends to avoid talking about how much fun they’re having when they denounce and shame allegedly deserving victims. After all, once you’ve admitted that, you pretty much have to concede that there’s a tremendous psychological incentive to nurture and exaggerate small grievances (so you have a justification for throwing stones), to search for and emphasize subtle respects in which you’re oppressed (so you have standing to throw stones), and to ignore anything that might complicate your understanding of the victim’s alleged transgression (so you aren’t talked out of throwing stones).”
― Ben Burgis, Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left