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

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Comment author: hairyfigment 28 January 2012 05:42:19AM 1 point [-]

Not to argue about definitions, but this seems well within the original definition of 'racism' as I understand it ("...claim that some races are superior to other races"). And society has good historical reasons to look askance at it -- for example, the outside view says nobody should trust your motives. (In particular, you shouldn't trust yourself.) It also says we shouldn't trust your factual beliefs without extremely strong evidence.