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by avgcorrection 950 days ago
> There’s a simple litmus test for independent-mindedness: does the person in question do the continuous work of collating “news” and narratives from all across the spectrum?

Simple? What if they think the entire range to care about are “my conservative grandfather” and “my liberal in-laws”? In other words this isn’t a litmus test unless the person even knows what the spectrum is.

Which is the point at which you return to Orthodoxy Privilege, or rather Ideology as people other than Paul “Not Invented Here” Graham has been calling it for over a century.

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Who said the test has to be self-administered? “This isn’t a litmus test unless the solution even knows what the pH range is”.
Who administers the test does not change the point I was making.