X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-of-validity-sections.md;h=68bc637cea2b460fe63d9f2095de6fcdb93c3ac1;hp=5ce7325b52e8fe34bbb4a6643baa4254e276553a;hb=ce6fbdd0da8854fd3e407103e3fc440d7dcccdb6;hpb=389af563f2ab7b90766512438cca95ea0c934f03 diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md index 5ce7325..68bc637 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md @@ -381,19 +381,6 @@ Then I would have at least hoped Eliezer Yudkowsky to be _in favor of_ rather th ---------- -[Moldbug argues that this is how America treats non-Asian minorities; and that it actually has bad effects on the people themselves—] - -[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 ...] - -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 ... - -[Scott Alexander wrote about how there are different dimensions of power— -http://web.archive.org/web/20130424233301/http://squid314.livejournal.com/354385.html] - -—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. - ----------- - [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