SSC post is massive miss-forest-for-trees strawman, but I'm too tired to argue, so I'll just postrationally 🙄🙄🙄slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you
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Nobody is denying there are nice misunderstood people in tent. It's that they're idiots and the camel's nose is in the tent too. Evil camel.
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While we're bandying animal fables around, how about wolf in sheep's clothing? Or the scorpion and frog?
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Ah. Feel torn myself. Would be interested in more lengthy commentary!
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It would be futile preaching to choir imo. But maybe someone with more evangelical energy like can see a way to do it
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basically it's the nerd tic: "well actually, technically...". later on the speaker acts surprised that convo devolved to technicalities
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doesn't seem to account for decades of excluding blacks from his housing, unless that's just cynicism _about_ racism.
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2nd such piece from "rationalist" camp after the 1 from "Wait But Why?"... apparently they can rationalize *anything* to themselves?
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