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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I don't agree, but I also think your audience and cintext differs greatly from Scott's, which explains why he sees it differently.
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it has nothing to do with context or audience. He is making basic thinking mistakes that I don't have the energy to fight.
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I don't think Scott's point is that Trump/his voters are "nice", it's that racism is a lazy analysis. They're many other bad things.
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I'll just let my brief critique stand as is without further elaboration, which would not help anything.
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"Y2K Bug was not a real problem; just over-reaction by software industry."
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Many will claim their fight contained it, but how will we know? Would there have been internment camps if we didn't intervene?
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I personally don't care who gets or claims the credit so long as the containment efforts work
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