+[TODO: explain the strategy whereby people are using being pro-trans as their progressive "dump stat"—maybe this (and maybe some of the above) should slot in after the discussion of Yudkowsky's post on our haters being Bad?]
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+On 17 February 2021, Topher Brennan [claimed on Twitter that](https://web.archive.org/web/20210217195335/https://twitter.com/tophertbrennan/status/1362108632070905857) Scott Alexander "isn't being honest about his history with the far-right", and published [an email he had received from Scott in 2014](https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/backstabber-brennan-knifes-scott-alexander-with-2014-email/), on what Scott thought some neoreactionaries were getting importantly right.
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+I think to people who have actually read _and understood_ Scott's work, there is nothing at all surprising or scandalous about the contents of this email.
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