There was recently a back-and-forth between Slate Star Codex and Nathan Robinson of Current Affairs, a major national news magazine on the political left in the United States. It didn't end well. I think it would serve as a good example in how I think rationalist diaspora members could better think and go about publicly engaging those outside the community on topics of common interest. I wouldn't publish it without running it by Scott first. But I don't want to waste the time to write a draft if it wouldn't be appropriate content for LW anyway.
I could post the write-up on my own blog and submit it as a community post. It wouldn't have any relevance to people outside the rationalist diaspora, so I'd prefer to post it to LW, but my own blog would be fine. If submitting it as a link/community post would be frowned up as well, that'd be fine with me too. I just want to know what the expected norms are here. If the answer to these questions would depend on the content of my write-up, that's also fine. I can drum something up, come back here, and then get feedback. Anyway, if the moderators or anyone else wants to give me their two cents, that'd be great.
This is lowish-value pedantry, but: for me at least "mindkilled" and "triggered" have usefully distinct meanings.
Reading something triggers you if (canonically, by reminding you of traumatic past events) it sets off mental processes in you that you find distressing and can't easily stop.
Reading something mindkills you if (canonically, by encouraging a frame of mind in which opinions are more a mark of group affiliation than a consequence of rational thought) it makes you unable or unwilling to think clearly and honestly about the topic at hand.
Mindkilling but not triggering: An American of leftish views reads an article saying that the economy has consistently performed more strongly, and almost everyone has become better off financially, under Democratic administrations than under Republican ones. Reading it makes them feel happy to be on the right side, increasingly confident that their preferred party is the best one, etc. Of course they don't check whether the numbers are right, whether a better explanation is that when the economy starts doing badly voters tend to elect Republicans, how much influence the executive branch actually has over the economy, etc.
Triggering but not mindkilling: Someone who has been raped reads an article about rape. Over the next day or so, every few minutes their memory kindly provides them with a vivid memory of being raped. This is a thing that happens to them every now and then, and they have learned not to let their distress muddle their thinking, but it's still acutely unpleasant.
The mindkilled person is made irrational but not necessarily distressed. The triggered person is distressed but not necessarily made irrational.
(Note: whether something is mindkilling or triggering is largely independent of whether what it says is correct. You would be ill advised to draw any inferences from the above regarding my opinions of either politics or rape.)