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JoshuaZ comments on Optimal eating (or rather, a step in the right direction) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 19 January 2015 03:06:28PM *  17 points [-]

Optimal nutrition brings up the issue of human biodiversity, though in other contexts social justice warriors call this "racism" and "pseudoscience."

Metacomment: You keep throwing these highly controversial statements into posts. It comes across as using tribal cheering, or worse, tribal booing. People are downvoting your posts not only for poor thinking but the fact that you seem to try to connect almost every single post you can to your politics. The comments might be better received if you focused on facts and evidence rather than remarks like the above.

Comment author: gjm 20 January 2015 12:56:17AM 6 points [-]

Further, at least in this case the statement is transformed from "highly controversial" to "straightforwardly wrong" by its insertion into this context. The idea that people with different ancestry might benefit from different diets is not, so far as I am aware, a thing that "social justice warriors" call racism or pseudoscience. (Though I expect some of them do. For any reasonably large group, you can find some members who do pretty much any crazy thing.)