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 (Silent influence!) "(to crib an expression) she sounds less like a person than she does like an AI trying to maximize the number of gay and trans people" https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8l0kdk/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_may_21_2018/dzloeuv/
 
 (Silent influence!) "it's quite possible the people claiming this harm have actually psyched themselves up to actually be emotionally harmed (I think there's an SSC article on this phenomenon)" https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8ryoo8/culture_war_roundup_for_june_18/e11m79c/ (The concept isn't original to "Terrorist Memeplexes", but I don't think this is Scott's line, and I think it's more likely that the commenter got it from me than Devin Helton)
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+(Silent influence!) "Don't negotiate with terrorist memeplexes, just cave in to their demands!" https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/akk8nc/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_january_28/efhz21i/

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 https://www.kesq.com/news/female-water-polo-players-confronted-by-naked-man-at-palm-springs-swim-center/987276858
 
 woman wanted roller derby as women's space: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/9zgivf/peak_trans_viii_tell_your_story_here/eesm1d7/
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+https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/is-it-now-a-crime-to-like-a-poem-about-transgenderism/

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 Operationalization of Bad Faith: if people make reasoning errors that they wouldn't make with another topic having the same underlying structure
 
-Nuance and Compression: there's a problem where if what you actually believe is extremely nuanced, and in some contexts you say something shorter and "punchier", people will ever-so-slightly misinterpret the punchier version and say, "Ah-ha!" like, I'm not _intending_ to motte-and-bailey, but _something_ has to get lost between the 5000-word nuanced version and the version that fits in a Tweet, and I'm sorry that the Tweet version is bailey-like
+"The Motte-and-Bailey Doctrine as Compression Artefact": there's a problem where if what you actually believe is extremely nuanced, and in some contexts you say something shorter and "punchier" (that's pushing back against a local majority: see "All Debates Are Bravery Debates"), people will ever-so-slightly misinterpret the punchier version and say, "Ah-ha!" like, I'm not _intending_ to motte-and-bailey, but _something_ has to get lost between the 5000-word nuanced version and the version that fits in a Tweet, and I'm sorry that the Tweet version is bailey-like
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+The Charity Convergence Trap
 
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