Right, the indefensible part of the argument isn't arguing whether or not Scott is racist, or whether or not him being racist impacts his ability to provide mental health care It's the part where SCOTT'S PATIENTS CAN'T BE TRUSTED TO MAKE THAT ASSESSMENT THEMSELVES
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
That's the fatal part of the argument It's not like I'm personally emailing his patient list telling them to drop him as a provider It's saying that having the information *available online* is unethical and harmful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
It's saying that if they Google his name and find his blog and read his own words as he posted them for consumption by the public, this will harm his reputation That they're too dumb/ignorant/crazy/brainwashed by wokeness to make that decision, they must be protected from it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
It is astonishingly condescending and hypocritically self-serving It's a disqualifying position in and of itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
If you prefer to write pseudononymously you should have that option. Is that seriously the point being debated here?
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Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and
If the argument is "the media has the right to publicly identify anybody who writes anonymously, anybody who doesn't want to be identified just fears accountability," then what are we even doing here?
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Replying to @GabrielObray @arthur_affect and
do you realise how fucking little effort he actually put in, and that he got his friends to vanish his surname from their blogs just days before he posted his "I AM BEING SILENCED!!!!" post
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Replying to @davidgerard @GabrielObray and
You are a black and white thinker and have exactly the kind of attitude that I reject: that Scott was fair game because his OPSEC wasn't perfect. Also, do you have evidence for your claim?
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @davidgerard and
If his name was such a big secret then why have I, someone who has never been within 100 miles of him irl and openly despises him and most of the people he knows, known it since 2014
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
Because you investigated it, and there's a huge difference between "in some randos' blogs" and "in the NYT"
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I absolutely did not investigate it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
I'd assumed his name actually was "Scott Alexander" right up until someone online called him "Scott Siskind" by accident
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
I am first learning his last name now, even after reading some Astral Codex Ten where he no longer hides it.
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