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PhilGoetz comments on Is altruistic deception really necessary? Social activism and the free market - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: PhilGoetz 26 February 2016 06:38AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 28 February 2016 01:57:14AM *  3 points [-]

Yes they did, in particular the false claim that there are no significant diffrences between blacks and whites.

That's false. The abolition movement never claimed there were no significant differences between blacks and whites. Read the transcripts/summaries of the Lincoln / Douglas debates.

Comment author: Old_Gold 28 February 2016 07:19:29AM 2 points [-]

True, however, the civil rights movement did.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 01 March 2016 07:19:20AM 1 point [-]

Oh. True.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 28 February 2016 09:49:58AM 0 points [-]

Why the hell was this comment downvoted?

Comment author: gjm 28 February 2016 03:14:26PM 3 points [-]

Because it was a disagreement with Old_Gold, who is the same person as Eugine_Nier and Azathoth123 and VoiceOfRa and TheLion, and who is not in this for the sake of mutually beneficial debate but in order to fight a culture war, and that's what he does.