Note on In Praise of DHH via okayfail.com

If you don’t understand the context, and you’re not personally being attacked, the dispute can sound kind of confusing. It takes an order of magnitude more effort to explain what he’s doing than it takes to write it in the first place. It’s a kind of a denial of service attack.

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okayfail.com

In Praise of DHH

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It takes many times the effort to dispel a lie than it does to share the truth.

And in the same way, using dog-whistles and shorthand for falsehoods makes it harder to argue with bigotry, because the initial argument sounds minimal.