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ThrustVectoring comments on [LINK] Why I'm not on the Rationalist Masterlist - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ThrustVectoring 06 January 2014 03:44:25AM 5 points [-]

It depends on the definition of "racist" that you use. Anyone who self-identifies as "racist" is probably in a hateful enough place that the idea of saving African children from malaria doesn't even cross their mind as a possibility. On the other hand, if you define racism as "any idea held by white people that PoC disapprove of", well, most white folks are racist.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 January 2014 07:08:01AM 17 points [-]

On the other hand, if you define racism as "any idea held by white people that PoC disapprove of", well, most white folks are racist.

Actually, it's some PoC. SJs claim to speak for all of a group, but actually, they don't.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 January 2014 10:06:15AM 0 points [-]

Read the comments to this post and weep.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 07 January 2014 01:03:25PM 8 points [-]

Was that the post you intended to link? I am glad to have discovered that in Finland, you get a top hat and a sword when you are awarded a Ph.D., but I see nothing boneheaded in the comments.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 January 2014 07:15:30AM 1 point [-]

Look at Ross Yesman's comment and the replies to it.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 08 January 2014 08:57:26AM *  1 point [-]

Storm in an eggcup.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 January 2014 07:41:57PM 3 points [-]

That was my point: someone crying sexism over something not a single woman in the conversation is bothered by.