Kathy Forth's suicide note is shocking because you can tell how much keeping the "rationalism" community's secrets ate away at her Her overwhelming despair wasn't just her trauma at sexual assault -- it was the slow realization *she couldn't get anyone around her to care*
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And she tried, oh Lord did she try Her suicide note is a painful read because it's this incredibly long, jargon-laden, stilted attempt at describing her pain in "rationalism"-speak Trying desperately to cerebrally, unbiasedly debate inside her head if she was crazy or not
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Which is why Scott brutally coming down hard on the side that "Yup, she was crazy, she was making up false accusations and she was out to delusionally harm innocents" is so fucking horrifying
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Like watching the Catholics bury one of their victims murmuring "Damn shame the demons got to him"
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And Forth's suicide note really is a rough read, tremendous trigger warnings for anyone who's been through anything similar The idea that these people she worships as icons of compassion and thoughtfulness and truth have an "irrational bias" she can't overcome breaks her
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And she tries to convince herself that *she's* "irrationally biased" -- because if she were one of her own friends she would absolutely look at herself and think she was a vicious raving SJW brainwashed by 3rd-wave feminist misandry -- and she CAN'T So she kills herself
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The suicide note *actually says* that she would rather die than live her life as an enemy of the community she loves, that she'd "rather be dead than be an SJW" It's fucking grim shit
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And while that's the most extreme possible scenario, the "rationalist" community as a whole is now very obviously advertising that cultlike polarization/radicalization dynamic If you think Scott is racist and his racism is a problem, there's no place for you there
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You can try to bring it up in private through whisper networks as much as you want, you will be ignored and dismissed, and if you take that nuclear option and let the evil harassing cancel-culture SJWs have access to what you know, now you're one of them and an enemy of reason
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Um. What the fuck is going on here.
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Like im gonna need a lot of context for this. Who are these people, what are they talking about? (In the screenshots in the quoted tweet, in case that wasnt clear)
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