reading @ElSandifer's essay here: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/ …
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this is just a remarkable rhetorical move, and quite similar I think to, you know, insisting that someone writing about you not use your name.
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it requires a certain kind of entitlement where you think you should get credit for your work but that any pushback is unfair and even immoral or a kind of cheating.
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so yeah, this essay seems like a pretty devastating analysis of Siskind's bad faith, cruelty, and bigotry. http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/ …
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nerds are not an oppressed class. I'm pretty sure I had fewer romantic relationships in high school and college than any of these people. I was not happy about it, but I was not oppressed.
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also, women are also not infrequently shy, into geeky stuff, and rejected by prospective partners. somehow this always is left out of the "nerds are oppressed" conversations.
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not being as romantically successful as you'd like is not a free pass to insult people who have been sexually assaulted. this isn't that complicated.
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apparently Siskind mocks and insults a woman who committed suicide after she spoke about being sexually assaulted in the rationalist community, and no one would help her or believe her. http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/ …
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he sounds like a complete piece of shit. people defending him need to really think hard about what the fuck they're doing.
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@ElSandifer shows pretty convincingly that Siskind is *obsessed* with controlling how people talk about him, and with controlling what people are allowed to say about his work.Show this thread -
his complaints about the use of his name take on a pretty specific context when you read about how he tries to set the bounds for acceptable responses to his work.
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to be more explicit, he is a thin-skinned, self-pitying, self-worshipping control freak.
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