Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles — LessWrong
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> It was not the sight of Mitchum that made him sit still in horror. It was the realization that there was no one he could call to expose this thing…

content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack’s unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by

  • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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    10 months ago

    “It was bad that the New York Times called Scott a racist, because he’s a racist but in a way that makes it correct to be racist.”

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
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      10 months ago

      oh holy shit I was only a handful of paragraphs in but he literally says that!!!

      So The New York Times implicitly accuses us of being racists, like Charles Murray, and instead of pointing out that being a racist like Charles Murray is the obviously correct position that sensible people will tend to reach in the course of being sensible, we disingenuously deny everything.

      one point for (pseudo)intellectual honesty i guess!