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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

      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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. 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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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      You know where the seeds of bigoted violence are planted, of future kristallnachts and pogroms and holocausts It starts with false equivalence, with getting those who already have the privilege to see themselves as victims It's a key unskippable step

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          Scott is probably personally in denial that he's doing this But he's taught tons of other people to do it His spinoff Reddit sub, r/TheMotte, has MAGAs making noises about stockpiling guns constantly now, and they use his language about the "Blue Tribe/Red Tribe" to do it

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          I didn't plan this thread ahead and I don't have a snappy ending for it I will just say I am absolutely, bone-deep convinced Scott has caused far more direct and indirect harm to vulnerable people with his writing than we will ever know

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          And however he performs fragility on the ol' TL and talks about being doxed and canceled and threatened, I do not for an instant believe he will EVER see even a small fraction come back to him of the harm he's caused And he gets zero charity/empathy/pity from me, and never will

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