bogus comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bogus 19 November 2014 12:56:26AM *  8 points [-]

Tumblr!social_justice and Tumblr!feminism (note the Tumblr! part) are not political ideas, though; they're more closely described as echo chambers (whoops, sorry, I meant to say "safe spaces", of course.) where meaningless duckspeak is endlessly repeated - so reacting with disgust and ridicule to them is arguably appropriate given LW's and - plausibly - SSC's goals. Neoreaction at least makes the grade as something that's (marginally) politically relevant. Which is still not saying much, of course.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 November 2014 07:41:57AM 4 points [-]

While Tumblr is of course awful, the simple answer is for Yvain to treat Tumblr as I treat neoreaction: close the browser tab and move on with life, good riddance to bad nonsense.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 19 November 2014 11:16:36AM *  26 points [-]

When I close the browser tab with neoreaction, I have a decent chance of never meeting a neoreactionary in my real life, so the problem is solved. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same thing about Tumblr!feminists. They are also rare, but I have already had the "pleasure" of meeting three of them. (Twice, they have cost me a female friend, because they were a friend of the friend, and have successfully convinced my friend that I am an evil person, because I happen to have an Y chromosome, which is a huge red flag for them. The third time, they have publicly accused my friend of being racist, when she dared to say that some traits correlate with certain genes, in a group of people who previously said more or less that genetics is a burgeoise pseudoscience.)

Unlike neoreaction, feminism happens to be a topic in real life (one could even call it a billion dollar industry, if we include all the government money spent on gender studies, female-only projects, etc.), so its perversions have a real impact. Many people spend a lot of time online, and if they meet the Tumblr version first, some of them will conclude this is the true version.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 November 2014 11:37:51PM 7 points [-]

What country do you live in that allows you to think these things only exist on the internet?

Comment author: othercriteria 19 November 2014 04:13:01AM 2 points [-]

echo chambers [...] where meaningless duckspeak is endlessly repeated

Imagine how intolerable NRx would be if it were to acquire one of these. Fortunately, their ideas are too extreme for 4chan, even, so I have no idea where such a forum would be hosted.

Comment author: Lumifer 19 November 2014 04:25:02AM 8 points [-]

so I have no idea where such a forum would be hosted

It may strike you as anarchy, but pretty much anyone can host a forum on the internet for insignificant amounts of money or even for free.

Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 19 November 2014 02:39:09PM 5 points [-]

Imagine how intolerable NRx would be if it were to acquire one of these.

Of course we have one, but it's secret.

Comment author: Vulture 25 November 2014 04:24:10AM 2 points [-]

Everyone knows about your 8chan board, bro :P

Comment author: bramflakes 19 November 2014 11:18:19PM *  0 points [-]

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