Humbug comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Humbug 26 January 2012 12:10:07PM *  9 points [-]

We have tried to discuss topics like race and gender many times, and always failed.

The overall level of rationality of a community should be measured by their ability to have a sane and productive debate on those topics, and on politics in general.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 January 2012 03:53:10PM 8 points [-]

Sure, agreed. But it doesn't follow that a community that desires to be rational should therefore engage in debates on those topics (and on politics in general) when it has low confidence that it can do so in a sane and productive way.