it is not by accident that this loosely-associated cluster of bloggers, weird nerds, and twitter shitposters were ahead of the game on coronavirus it's because they were watching, and thinking, and paying attention and listening to things that sound crazy...just in case
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there is a 2-part lesson this community held to, even while the rest of the world is forgetting it: -you can't prohibit dissent -it's sometimes worth it to engage someone when they have icky-sounding ideas
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it was unpopular six months ago to think COVID might be a big deal the SSC/LW diaspora paid attention anyways.
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you can refuse to hang out with someone at a party you can tell your friends they suck but you can't prohibit them from speaking *merely because their ideas make you uncomfortable* and there is value in engaging with dissent, with ideas that are taboo in Current Year
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anonymity norms are critical to maintaining the ability to find new ideas, new ways of being better, new ways that you've been wrong it does mean some people will use the anonymity to say terrible things but sometimes it just means sensibly separating a few areas of your life
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I don't use my real name here for some personal reasons there are things I discuss here that I don't want certain people finding, because they are malicious there are certain things I say here that I want the opportunity to say to *different people* in *different ways*
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but I'm getting off track -- I have more to say on anonymity, but the point of this thread was to say that this is not a community of hate it is a set of loosely associated clusters of people who share some overlap in the way they approach the world
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many, perhaps most, are trying very hard to be right, be good, and keep the world in some stable, intact configuration so that we can take advantage of all of the positives the future might have to offer without destroying ourselves in the process
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Scott has never been racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted I have encountered fewer racists and sexists here than anywhere else in my life I was accepted because people enjoyed talking to me -- no credentials, no prestige, no connections, no money. just me and my words.
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through this community I met my best friends, and later, my husband through this community I met other women who didn't terrify me SSC did not create a community of hate we have our assholes. but mostly, we have friends.
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