Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 002 Notes: This commentary is related to my essay: Dear Public Officials: Stop falling for the myth of an irrational panicked public. By Chloe Humbert, Aug 25 2023 And it started initially as me writing a hopped […]
Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 001 (transcript below) Notes, & Links: Pluralistic ignorance From Wikipedia In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance refers to a situation in which the minority position on a given topic is wrongly perceived to be the majority position or […]
Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.
We don’t need to convince everyone before moving forward, and we may already have more on board than it appears anyway. We won’t know until we try. We need to urge the people who already agree with us to speak up, and […]
Manufacturing MILD
MILD: A longtime PR word to downplay threats, normalize harms, and manufacture consent by manufacturing doubt. Locally contracted malaria is happening in Florida now, but CNN and Accuweather felt they needed to emphasize that it’s rare and mostly comes from going to […]