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The slatestar subreddit is doing its regular so what's up with all the racists constantly crawling out of the woodwork around here surprised pikachu thread, in response to Scotty doing Hanania Week in the substack.
Hanania is clearly analogous to Foucault and Heidegger, and also is it even wrong to completely divorce a work from all context.
uwu smolbean blogger with absolutely no agenda besides the pursuit of truth and civility strikes again.
"Scott being nice to racists and reviewing their books positively actually means he's less racist" is a good rhetorical trick.
HBD is a legit line of scientific inquiry you guys, it's not just eugenics obsessed weirdoes and fascists trying to bring back birthright as the primary path to privilege.
It's also a patently idiotic philosophy boiling down to basically negotiating with terrorists.
Amazing how much they memoryholed the Scott emails.
So what exactly happens to people who get really into Scott et al. and then realize that they're racist? I mean people like OP who genuinely seemed shocked by how buddy buddy their "unorthodox" intellectuals are with blatant racists.
Do they slowly disengage from rationalist-spheres, or do they just become cryptoracists like all the other idw types?
They start reading sneerclub and then see that the stereotypes about hwo horrible the place is are not true. Then they post, then they are lost.
Trapped in Acausal Robot God's maze forever
We just cut out the middleman, no fancy simulation needed, we can torture ourselves well enough.
Also what the fuck?
is this trying to say "discrimination against racists is the real racism"? ... Would that be "racismism"?
"should we really treat violent racists any differently from how we would casually treat a neighbour? what is it really you expect me to do do? why are you so ridiculous?"
just some casual afternoon reframing of violent racism and dehumanising anyone that isn't like themselves, no biggie
at least one vein of this goes off into the vibes cluster that is TPOT