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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. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      If Scott had, rather than performatively exercising his empathy muscles during his "What I did on my vacation" essay, read a fucking book There have been reams of poetry and literature, both popular and highfalutin, about exactly this

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      "If there were a way to give him what he hungrily seeks when I see his eyes meet mine, if there were a way to fill that void inside him so that he could know peace, so I could know peace But it cannot be done It is like trying to empty the sea"

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      Or if he, you know, watched TV Wanda Sykes put it pretty bluntly in a comedy special she did around this time "You ever wish you had a detachable pussy? So you could just take it off and be like 'Here, knock yourself out' 'Wash it before you give it back to me'"

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      God I'm so fucking mad about this It's not just a bad evil opinion, it's a STUPID bad evil opinion He gets all this credit for being smart and insightful for NOT THINKING OF THINGS and NOT SEEING THINGS his audience would also rather not see

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      This inverted incentive structure where if you bury it under enough big words and florid rhetoric you can make ignorance sound like wisdom, if it's something people really want to ignore "Wow, why did *I* never think of just saying 'But what if there is no racism'"

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      ("Against Murderism" is literally an essay saying at length "Hey what if racism just isn't a thing" "You Are Still Crying Wolf" is an essay SPECIFICALLY saying "Hey can you PROVE that Donald Trump, in particular, is racist" Fucking universe-brain horseshit)

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      It's not just that I consider him fundamentally offensive, although I do It's that this shit is fundamentally poison and it's all over the place in the techbro culture that's taking over our world Not just unwillingness but *inability* to fucking *listen* to anyone unlike you

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      It is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to take seriously this idea well-paid white male cishet software engineers -- who mostly do have active sex lives and brag about it -- are some kind of oppressed class, unless you carefully and deliberately construct this wildly narcissistic worldview

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      This contrarian use of rhetoric and analogy to fuck with your basic moral intuitions that were, in fact, correct from the start "Let me explain to you in 20,000 words how rich white men COULD be the same as poor Black women, and make you think it made you smarter not stupider"

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      They say he's teaching empathy and insight but he's teaching the exact opposite He's giving you a toolkit to never again have to care about someone other than yourself The Scott-Alexander-tm patented Rhetorical Reversal Device

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      "Have you considered feeling bad about the state of the world for people who aren't you Have YOU considered that you didn't even ASK how bad I ALREADY feel about the traumas I have personally endured Have you considered that makes you the real racist"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          Did you know that Scott once wrote a post where he said that he'd heard "nerdy white dudes" as a stock phrase in a negative way from SJW posts so much that he considered it the equivalent of the N-word for Black people He deleted it but I'm sure someone somewhere remembers

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          And yeah I'm sure delving into Scottology comes off as "obsessive" and dipshits like Matt Yglesias just want the fun posts about statistics and would like us to treat all the dirty laundry from the past as water under the bridge But Scott hasn't fucking changed

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          And I genuinely think Kate Manne got at something really deep and scary with the word "himpathy" This "niceness" and "kindness" and "empathy" shit is really dangerous Who is he asking for empathy for? FROM WHOM is he asking it?

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          He's asking privileged white male nerds who just want to <s>grill</s> detachedly talk about statistics while the rest of the world burns to empathize with *themselves* At best he's comforting the comfortable and justifying their self-absorbed navel-gazing inaction

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        1. not my real name‏ @klarth Feb 20
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          Man, you're on fire this week. 👏 I appreciate you for the invisible to us drain this effort must be causing.

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