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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 8 years ago

An interesting thing to observe is how people inadvertently reveal their true beliefs about things when talking about other things

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10/27/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 8 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

For eg, many takedowns of Trump involve photoshopping his appearance or otherwise presenting him as fat. Reveals what we think abt fatness

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10/27/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 8 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

A radical South Indian feminist recently posted abt how North Indian women can't get men. Reveals what she really thinks abt male attention

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10/27/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 8 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

To clarify - I don't think its as straightforward as "she says X but believes Y". Y is buried in the subconscious somewhere, maybe

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10/27/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 8 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

It can be really subtle. Pay attention to conversations about jobs, marriage, kids... everything. Even the clarifying questions we ask

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10/27/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 8 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

I often think about this phrase in a techbro's interview with a tech CEO. What do you think he thinks about bus drivers? 🤔 https://t.co/vgBFy8KqiG

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10/27/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 8 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

It's always the throwaway little details that really betray a person's true values&beliefs. But you can't take them to court on those things

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10/27/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 8 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Thinking abt Steve Jobs' "you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards". But collect the dots!!

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10/27/2017
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/KHtXI9pZ2m

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2/23/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/k1W0XHvzKA

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2/23/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/TLxaz4mBKM

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2/26/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

What is this picture trying to say? https://t.co/3ooq0PM62k

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2/26/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

https://t.co/YqIl01NvlZ

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4/11/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Another example where the joke is a head of state dressed like an older woman https://t.co/7n8Wcdacn2

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5/3/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Because being sexually active is coded as being mature, adult, desirable, etc, “virgin” is an insult It’s also part of the prerequisites for making an incel (they also need to be entitled, hateful, etc) #DestigmatizeVirginity https://t.co/vW6jd34zZX

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5/3/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Guy: "I feel like I have to be more manly around (my girlfriend)." Author: "Sounds like fragile masculinity to us." TRP is right when they say that men have to be automatically good at being men. Express uncertainty about *that* and you're a lesser man https://t.co/WRv1xPelqf

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5/14/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

This is an example of what many people think is a fucked up face https://t.co/GlytXyd1uM

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5/21/2018
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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Oceanover 7 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Totally. People don't monitor it for their image as much too, I think. The key (as with all conversation, really) is to infer "what sort of belief would cause someone to say this?" what's the generator? Related: https://t.co/0aUxtDN8AS

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2/23/2018
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

@Malcolm_Ocean Yup. What I thought was interesting is – a person likely wouldn't be able to tell you what these beliefs are if you asked them, or even if they confronted themselves, via reflection. What works (for me) is to write in a continuous, open-ended way and then review later on

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2/23/2018