It's also far from clear how "racist" the statements were - most of the people on twitter don't seem to have actually read Moldbug/Yarvin. Proponents of ostraci

It's also far from clear how "racist" the statements were - most of the people on twitter don't seem to have actually read Moldbug/Yarvin. Proponents of ostracizing Yarvin are notably unwilling to actually discuss why they believe it's racist. (I admit, I've not come anywhere near reading his entire work. He's longwinded and that's a big barrier.) The actual blog post that's criticized is here: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-carlyle-matters.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-car... My best summary of the controversial part of the blog that I can come up with is this: Suddenly we see the relationship between slavery and government. Serfdom and slavery can be described as microgovernment and nanogovernment respectively. In government proper, the normal human role of patron is filled by a giant, impersonal, and often accidentally sadistic bureaucracy...In serfdom, this role is filled by a noble house...In slavery, mastership is exercised by a mobile individual whose slaves go with him. We see these same relationship parameters emerging...This is a pretty good clue that this structure is one to which humans are biologically adapted. Nozick had a much shorter essay (Yarvin is not known for brevity) which expresses the same idea: http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/nozick_slave.html http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/no... The larger part of the essay is about creating order in society and Robert Carlyle's views on that. The specific quote which is interpreted as supporting slavery is this: Thus, Spaniards and Englishmen in the Americas in the 17th and earlier centuries, whose sense of political correctness was negligible, found that Africans tended to make good slaves and Indians did not. This broad pattern of observation is most parsimoniously explained by genetic differences. This is mostly tangential to his main points, however.