thomblake comments on Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2009 07:22AM

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Comment author: thomblake 22 July 2009 03:25:18PM *  1 point [-]

Did you not read the rest of this thread? EY suggested that one might require certain 'anatomical credentials' (not his wording) to speak up, and Alicorn despaired that it might put an undue burden on her and asked if other people could help.

Incidentally, insisting that people apologize to you is not good form.

Comment author: SilasBarta 22 July 2009 03:30:05PM 3 points [-]

Did you not read the rest of this thread? EY suggested that one might require certain 'anatomical credentials' (not his wording) to speak up, and Alicorn despaired that it might put an undue burden on her and asked if other people could help.

That speaks to whether the feminist censors' existence is justified. That issue is distinct from my point, which is that Eliezer_Yudkowsky's proposal amounts to assigning feminist censors, which turns out to be an accurate assessment.

You may have wonderful reasons for supporting this policy, but I was absolutely right about the implications of Eliezer_Yudkowsky's proposal, when others didn't see such implications.

Incidentally, insisting that people apologize to you is not good form.

Perhaps, but so is:

1) Ignoring warnings that turn out to be correct.

2) Not apologizing for ridiculing someone who turned out not to deserve it.