one thing I'll say about Robin Hanson that hasn't yet been said, and this is public information linked by him from his twitter, is his "favorite musicians are Vangelis - majestic, ethereal - and Enya - passionate, ethereal." boy likes his ether is what I'm saying
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no urgent self-interest motivates him, excepting the general pleasure of detailing his sadistic sexual fantasies for the public and the abstract delight the misogynist takes in his misogyny. it's important that he's not in this for _him_. not directly, not materially. because
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he is, like I say, married. he has female colleagues he may or may not like. and all his speculative sympathy and problem-solving abilities go to work for: women like his wife, the human he knows best? no. women in the academy, like himself, his closest peers? no.
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all his pity and concern flow to men who hate women. as a river to the sea. he looks at authoritarian hate-groups and sees his less fortunate brothers. 'that could be me': a thought he never has for a woman. gender for him trumps rationality, ethics, family, everything.
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his kind are worse and scarier than the terrorists because terrorists are transparent; Hansons are opaque until they crack open. a man who is your husband, your friend, educated, happy, can still look at a murderer and see a brother before he ever looks at you and sees a person.
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there's no limit to how many of them a society can hold. the sickness that makes an apparently normal man hear about the latest terror attack and say Poor bastard, it's not right but imagine how he felt. and never feel that human kinship with a woman. the SPLC can't track that.
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