Larks comments on Help, help, I'm being oppressed! - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Yvain 07 April 2009 11:22PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 08 April 2009 02:19:29AM 11 points [-]

From Politics is the Mind-Killer:

If your point is inherently about politics, then talk about Louis XVI during the French Revolution.

Or how about Marxism at least? Exact same dynamic as the one you speak of (the claim that they speak for a silent oppressed majority that's certain to win out in the end), but far less likely to explode in your face on this blog.

Comment author: Larks 16 August 2009 05:55:07PM 6 points [-]

Isn't the safest option to always discuss the bad points from your own side?- possibly prefaced by a note explaining this. If I write something critical of the UK Conservative Party, or Hayek, you can be sure it's because I genuinely think they have something wrong, and sufficiently wrong to over-come my in-group feelings, rather than simply being another attack on The Evil Enemy.