Eugine_Nier comments on Conspiracy Theories as Agency Fictions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 10 June 2012 10:03:38PM 4 points [-]

Oh, very much so. It's a sort of offhand straw-man caricature of attitudes found in certain aspects of humanities scholarship, especially those that purport to "social justice"; its use here suggests to me that Konkvistador either doesn't understand the arguments, several chains of interpretation away, or has a fairly selective sample set to work from.

I'm pretty sure a supporter of any of the other conspiracy theories Konkvistador casually dismissed in the post would make an analogous complaint.

Comment author: EStokes 10 June 2012 10:54:17PM 1 point [-]

Though it might be good to tack on "though it doesn't mean it's not a valid statement" to the beginning or something. Not that I'm trying to police the way you comment, haha, I'm just trying to say this in a way that doesn't seem like aggression.