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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. trizzlor‏ @trizzlor Feb 14
      Replying to @trizzlor @olivertraldi and

      YMMV but Scott comes off as disingenuous to me in these interactions

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    2. griller bill‏ @justwant2grill Feb 14
      Replying to @trizzlor @olivertraldi and

      Maybe he doesn't believe he has sufficient reason to stake out a position on the matter and therefore does not speak about it. That would be reasonable given the topic is highly controversial and actively researched even among experts.

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    3. trizzlor‏ @trizzlor Feb 14
      Replying to @justwant2grill @olivertraldi and

      If you are talking about the mutability of class in America then you are staking out a position on the role of race one way or another. If Scott is willing to argue for/against specific interventions then he should be willing to address race, or else avoid the topic entirely.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. trizzlor‏ @trizzlor Feb 14
      Replying to @trizzlor @olivertraldi and

      I should say that I find much of SSC interesting and thoughtful. But my sense is that Scott is not very motivated to think about racism and sees Murray's views as academic eccentricities. So when confronted with the implications of those views, he repeatedly punts.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. trizzlor‏ @trizzlor Feb 14
      Replying to @trizzlor @olivertraldi and

      It's like writing thousands of words about how black people prefer living in ghettos, and then when somebody says "uh, what about red lining?" just clamming up and saying that you're only interested in cultural choices

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    6. griller bill‏ @justwant2grill Feb 14
      Replying to @trizzlor @olivertraldi and

      I can't accept that analogy. I can agree it's problematic to form an opinion about class mobility without considering race, but that's not remotely the same as writing *about* race and dismissing racism in that writing.

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    7. trizzlor‏ @trizzlor Feb 14
      Replying to @justwant2grill @olivertraldi and

      you're right, let me amend it: it's like positing that *people* in the US seem to naturally want to live in ghettos while repeatedly refusing to engage with the history of redlining

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. griller bill‏ @justwant2grill Feb 14
      Replying to @trizzlor @olivertraldi and

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      I can agree with that, and it aligns with the criticism I independently made recentlyhttps://twitter.com/sapporophyte/status/1360655963846418432?s=19 …

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      griller bill @justwant2grill
      My biggest criticism of SSC is that Scott Alexander took it upon himself to analyze culture war topics in a fair, rational way, but chose to highlight almost exclusively the flaws with the social justice left, with little due given when it has potentially valid pts
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    9. griller bill‏ @justwant2grill Feb 14
      Replying to @justwant2grill @trizzlor and

      It's fair to find serious fault with his blind spots here, but I think there is a significant distance between not talking about race and actively advancing biological racial differences to explain social differences, or actively minimizing social drivers.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. trizzlor‏ @trizzlor Feb 14
      Replying to @justwant2grill @olivertraldi and

      Agreed, there is a massive difference between SSC and Murray. I am concerned about an SSC -> Murray -> NRx pipeline and I am frustrated by how easy it would be for SSC to curtail this. Just say you think Murray's views are offensive instead of burying it in a thought experiment!

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 14
      Replying to @trizzlor @olivertraldi and

      Lol Scott has had years to just say "Charles Murray is a racist so fuck him" in so many words if that's what he really thinks and yet MYSTERIOUSLY, SOMEHOW, he JUST WON'T SAY IT Gosh why could that possibly be His fans rack their big brains for a logical explanation

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        1. Donald Newell‏ @donaldknewell Feb 14
          Replying to @arthur_affect @trizzlor and

          The valley always had these awkward men that convince themselves that their rationalism allows a clearer view of the world. They end up libertarians and fascist friendly. There’s no reason to use e.g. NRx instead of fascist except the books they read.

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