ArisKatsaris comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MTGandP 30 November 2012 09:55:16PM 4 points [-]

Generally, half the time we get visiting leftwingers accusing us of being rightwing reactionaries, and the other half of the time we get visiting rightwingers accusing us of being leftwing sheep.

The first one surprises me because hardly anyone on LW seems conservative (and the polls confirm this).

I'm hereby making a prediction with 75% certainty that you consider yourself a left winger. Am I right?

I'm definitely a non-libertarian, so that may be it.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 02 December 2012 05:43:29PM *  9 points [-]

The first one surprises me because hardly anyone on LW seems conservative (and the polls confirm this).

Just in the last two or three months I remember there was one guy that accused us of being the right-wing conspiracy of multibillionaire Peter Thiel (because he has donated money to the Singularity Instittue), a few who accused the whole site of transphobia (for not banning a regular user for a bigoted joke he made on a different location, not actually in this forum), one who called us the equivalent of fascist sheep (for having more people here read Mencius Moldbug on average than I suppose is the internet forum median)...

Fanatics view tolerance of the enemy as enemy action. So, yeah, I think leftwing fanatics will view anything even tolerant of either reaction or libertarianism as their enemy -- even as they don't notice that similar tolerance is extended to positions to the left of them.