Viliam_Bur comments on [LINK] Why I'm not on the Rationalist Masterlist - Less Wrong Discussion
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Why? Does being born with a wrong chromozome prevent a person from understanding feminism?
A few lines sooner, you said "Being a feminist is incredibly hard." Is it hard only for men, or also for women? If it is also hard for women, then wouldn't a man who succeeds somewhat in being a feminist be qualified enough to tell women what feminism is?
Read the following sentence and try to think what is wrong about it:
You know, there used to be people who believed it to be just as self-evident as what you said.
By the way, some feminists do disagree with other feminists, so even disagreeing with some feminists does not contradict being a feminist.
So how do you explain the women who are here? I guess they must be white or otherwise inferior...
Nearly all of my friends, regardless of their gender, were not interested in LW. I would guess that even most of your male friends weren't.
Let's add misandrist things to the list. Oops, now your comment would violate the rules...
(yeah, yeah, I get it; I didn't read Dworkin, therefore I am using completely wrong definitions, and furthermore I am a white man which means I can't understand anything)
At this point probably the best option would be to start a new rationalist site with the following rules:
all members are assumed to be "white male" (WM), unless personally verified by moderators;
a WM user is not allowed to see non-WM user's username, only their comment; unless the non-WM user flagged their comment as "private", in which case WM user sees nothing;
any non-WM user can delete any comment made by a WM user; maybe even trusted WM users can delete any comment made by a WM user.
I guess this would be enough for a version 1.0; in version 2.0 you can add intersectionality and more complex rules of evaluating privileges. There are probably many people believing that this is a good way to have discussions, so you could cooperate with them to create this necessary software.