I never said that we are immune
True.
Here's what you did say:
[LW] should be the perfect (or close enough) environment to talk politics because you can have reasonable discussions here.
I think this is overly optimistic. (Thus I do not feel as though you've called me, or anyone else here, stupid. Rather, I think you've overestimated our reasonableness on a political topic.)
I may have been overly optimistic. I was just stating my confusion about the fact that this chance (people with different political opinions and small identities that are interested in finding the truth and like to discuss on a fair basis) has not been used (much) to discuss politics.
I guess with "perfect" I meant that it is one of the best places you can find, not that it is really perfect.
Hello fellow LWs,
As I have read repeatedly on LW (http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/) you don't like discussing politics because it produces biased thinking/arguing which I agree is true for the general populace. What I find curious is that you don't seem to even try it here where people would be very likely to keep their identities small (www.paulgraham.com/identity.html). It should be the perfect (or close enough) environment to talk politics because you can have reasonable discussions here.
I do understand that you don't like to bring politics into discussions about rationality, but I don't understand why there shouldn't be dedicated political threads here. (Maybe you could flag them?)
all the best
Viper