Scott Alexander says insightful things about famous representatives of silenced groups. e.g. "Activists for taboo views need a skill that activists for orthodox views don’t – that of surfing controversy. The insult “edgelord” is basically correct "http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-popular-and-silenced/ …
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Scott Alexander is addressing people who do not want to believe what he's saying. So he has to be very careful and thorough about it and even still dump on some of the people he's defending so that he puts enough distance between himself and them - even though he's a pseudonym.
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He might figure out that polygamy is objectively bad in another 10 years at this rate
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