cousin_it comments on "3 Reasons It’s Irrational to Demand ‘Rationalism’ in Social Justice Activism" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 30 March 2016 12:07:38PM *  4 points [-]

Harsh but mostly true, I think.

Many social movements base their popularity on texts that are basically free-form poems. Eliezer, Moldbug, Ayn Rand, even the Sermon on the Mount :-)

Comment author: formido 30 March 2016 06:13:07PM *  0 points [-]

...or like women's suffrage or abolition!

Not all poetry is equally valid or has equally defensible aims.

Comment author: Lumifer 30 March 2016 07:10:34PM 0 points [-]

Not all poetry is equally valid

What does it mean for poetry to be "valid"?