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-[Moldbug argues that this is how America treats non-Asian minorities; and that it actually has bad effects on the people themselves—]
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-[I can see the argument abstractly, but I couldn't put my weight down on it being bad for the people themselves, until I see it happening to my people ...]
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-It wasn't my place. I'm not a woman or a racial minority; I don't have their lived experience; I _don't know what it's like_ to face the challenges they face. So while I could permissibly _read blog posts_ skeptical of the progressive story about redressing wrongs done to designated sympathetic victim groups, but I clearly didn't have license to _talk_ about any reasons to be skeptical ...
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-[Scott Alexander wrote about how there are different dimensions of power—
-http://web.archive.org/web/20130424233301/http://squid314.livejournal.com/354385.html]
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-—until, suddenly, in 2016, it was now seeming that the designated sympathetic victim group of our age was ... _straight boys who wish they were girls_. And suddenly, [_I had standing_](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/). When a political narrative is being pushed for _your_ alleged benefit, it's much easier to make the call that it's obviously full of lies.
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[TODO: David Xu's postrat]
And the thing where David Xu interprets criticism of Eliezer as me going "full post-rat"?! https://twitter.com/davidxu90/status/1435106339550740482
all those transwomen are going to be so embarrassed when the FAI gives us telepathy after the Singularity
and it turns out that what actual women feel as _absolutely nothing to do_ with what AGP fantasy feels like
-Holy shit, this is *exactly* what happened with me
-Katie's comment on https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/advice-for-wivesgirlfriends-of-autogynephiles/
Tue Feb 14 2017 11:26:20 (this conversation was actually during the tantrum)—
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