I think for things like open letters the text is often the least important part what matters more for understanding implications of such things: - who is saying something - with whom - publicly or privately - when
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this is of course true and addresses my angle, but i think is not a useful objection on instrumental grounds of /course/ steve sailer would sign probably but that would be neither helpful to objective of the letter, nor salient to its pointpic.twitter.com/NLBAfCn7c3
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what matters (if anything) about the open letter is that people who are prominent are signalling a break with another faction, publicly; and specifically people who might be expected to be hostile to the Real Outgroup its a flag in the ground for a media faction
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having /lots/ of signatories does not help with this, nor does having Outgroup signatories
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analogy: if half the College of the Cardinals signs an open letter regarding Donatism, that matters in the Church getting further signatures from Bob the Anglican in London and from Ayatollah Khamenei? This would confuse the issue at best
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anyway read timur kuran stay strapped iluhttps://www.amazon.com/Private-Truths-Public-Lies-Falsification/dp/0674707583 …
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Being extremely contrarian or middle of the road is often less courageous. You eventually end up standing for nothing.
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Big "I am Tyler Cowen" energy (though I generally do like his posts about wokeness etc) Also: the best MR posts are often long ones with numbered lists and the weakest ones are often long posts without numbered lists
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I wish he had gone into a lot more depth on his diagnosis of the censorious impulse as being fundamentally neurotic. that sounds like an interesting analysis I'd like to read and he didn't say much of anything here.
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? He seems to be taking a not-that-subtle stance here.
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Oh, you were disappointed by the mood affiliation.
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