• David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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    5 months ago

    some commenters in those threads are talking about the New York EAs vs the Berkeley EAs - the former are rich liberals, the latter are rationalist cultists. there are several suggestions that EA needs to expel the rationalists.

    the furious defenders of racism^Wfreedom of ideas in those threads don’t seem to figure out that they’re why the non-racist EAs are suggesting that expelling rationalism from EA is even possible

    i mean, they should have done so about a decade ago, because they were only and ever a fucking embarrassment

    but now they’re being a hugely racist embarrassment, not just a nerd-weird one, and it’s harder to spin that

    i mean, not that liberals aren’t all for a bit of systemic racism, but you can’t make it personal like that

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      5 months ago

      Everyone is talking about racism in this group but I’m not seeing it. I didn’t read the entire website you posted because it’s really long. Is there something racist in that article? If so what is it?