You'd be hard pressed to convince me that cryonics is more beneficial to people of color than dismantling the systematic bias against people of color inherent in western society.
Well, there is a very simple reason cryonics is more beneficial than "dismantling the systematic bias against people of color inherent in western society", namely, that the "systematic bias against people of color inherent in western society" doesn't actually exist. If anything modern western society has a systematic bias in favor of people of color.
Here's a hint: the people who told you that there exists "a systematic bias against people of color inherent in western society" believe that lying is justified for the cause, and they were either lying to you or repeating someone else's lie.
Scott, known on LessWrong as Yvain, recently wrote a post complaining about an inaccurate rape statistic.
Arthur Chu, who is notable for winning money on Jeopardy recently, argued against Scott's stance that we should be honest in arguments in a comment thread on Jeff Kaufman's Facebook profile, which can be read here.
Scott just responded here, with a number of points relevant to the topic of rationalist communities.
I am interested in what LW thinks of this.
Obviously, at some point being polite in our arguments is silly. I'd be interested in people's opinions of how dire the real world consequences have to be before it's worthwhile debating dishonestly.