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But libertarian politics is the neutral baseline; it's other politics that is mindkilling.
I would agree with a slightly modified version of this. On LessWrong libertarian politics is the neutral baseline of economics and liberal politics is the neutral baseline of morality. All other options are "mindkilling".
In addition to this I will note our similarity to academia. Much of the tribal attire of "libertarians" is endorsed among economists and much of the moral tribal attire of "liberals" is endorsed by bioethics and philosophy. Not that these are necessarily good signals...
It's annoying and stupid, as it precludes any attempt to use the supposedly superior powers of rationality found hereabouts on quite a range of actual practical problems. Worse yet, whenever someone does try, the proscription proves well-founded. Sigh.
Does this happen for issues besides feminism?
I agree.
Also I just plain enjoy well written and well thought out defences of Libertarian economic and Liberal moral positions I disagree with that only happen when they actually get challenged. I recommend Yvain's blog for the latter btw.