You don't fucking wait for him to decide You don't let him come to some kind of intellectual decision If him attacking you is *anywhere* in his "decision space" you cut that shit off by any method you have to hand, as fast and as hard as you can
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThePrussian1 and
I guess I just can't connect your points here about taking preemptive action against Nazis with the action being to strip Scott of either his blog or his job. Seems like we can keep punching Nazis AND let Scott do his thing, and the two aren't interfering with each other.
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Replying to @cowtung @ThePrussian1 and
Scott is friendly with white nationalists, and to the extent that Scott has access to respectability and clout, he provides them access to it too
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThePrussian1 and
I simply haven't seen enough evidence to warrant "friendly". Perhaps "patient with". I like for the world to have some diversity. Scott is a weirdo. I'm reminded of this:https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes …
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Replying to @cowtung @arthur_affect and
God, this guy is literally the ONE EXAMPLE you assholes always hold up. The thing is a) not all of these people, by a long shot, actually "converted away" from racism or even actually left the KKK (there have been follow-ups; some of them were right back at it);
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Replying to @iridienne @cowtung and
and b) THIS METHOD DOESN'T SCALE. Nobody gives a shit what is going on in the secret hearts of bigots. We just want them to stop doing bigoted things. There are WAY MORE EFFECTIVE methods of accomplishing that than asking them very nicely, one by one, to stop.
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Replying to @iridienne @cowtung and
As Mencken famously said “One horse laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms” and this is doubly true with rationalists
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Replying to @ArsonAtDennys @RiotAtArbys and
Sheer social shaming and fear of personal consequences has probably done a lot more to turn people away from the alt-right (most likely in favor of just logging off completely) than any of this debate-club bullshit "Bullying" is harmful because it *works*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
We would like to hand the torch to
@GeorgeHemingto1 and@davidgerard who will continue the series of unprecedented exposés. What WILL we find? (Hint: it’s racism) Aka I need to sleep but one of u create a thread and link it here1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes -
Replying to @ArsonAtDennys @RiotAtArbys and
although I deeply appreciate your top class work here, you must understand that we are both profoundly lazy and tend to approach critique of the rationalist subculture as internet television, including occasionally the bit where you shout at the screen
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Now and again I’ll shout at the screen for enough time to shit out some prose for a while But I think I just went out drinking for two days with some friends after the last time I did anything at any lengthhttps://irrationallyspeaking.home.blog/2019/10/22/dominics-basilisk-part-1/ …
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