for a piece that was supposed to be published last summer about such an interesting topic, it's weirdly slapdash and shallow
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Replying to @mattyglesias @DKThomp
Yes. You prove someone has retrograde views by pointing to what they write or say. Metz can't do that, so he’s left with saying Scott once agreed with Charles Murray, had a objectionable blog on his blog roll, or replied in a supportive way to someone who said something bad. Sad.
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Yeah it's not like Scott wrote a ridiculously long and overwrought essay specifically about hiding your "un-PC" beliefs and speaking about them in code ("hiding your power level", as the kids say)https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/ …
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I will happily concede to you and Metz that Scott is unbearably verbose. I rarely get through his posts, and won’t get through your link. But the NYT piece was full of insinuations, misrepresentations and transparent malice, amply documented elsewhere.
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Okay, the point wasn't making fun of Scott's writing style Let me summarize the essay behind the link, since you won't bother reading it: Scott believes there are unsayable "un-PC" truths in the world today you have to carefully talk around if you're a smart rational person
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Replying to @arthur_affect @willgadea and
Obviously, he doesn't say what they are, but his rant is extremely similar to what Nazis on Telegram talk about when describing "hiding your power level" (ie expressing fascist views without being overtly white supremacist or antisemitic)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @willgadea and
I mean, sure, I'm obviously (and unashamedly) setting myself up as the evil Stalinist censor from his stupid essay but I don't think it's malicious "insinuation" to read between the lines of someone who waxes effulgent about the noble art of writing between the lines
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Replying to @arthur_affect @willgadea and
It's like how neocon founding father Leo Strauss wrote all this histrionic shit about how great philosophers have to hide the true meaning of their writings in clever code to avoid persecution
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Then his fans got super pissed if you tried to find hidden meanings in his texts and said you were persecuting him by doing so Like shit come on dude I'm not stupid
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