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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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