> It's a bit disturbing to me how enthusiastically the SlaterStarCodex crowd latches onto this "fuck you, got mine" essay, gushing with praise and admiration ab

> It's a bit disturbing to me how enthusiastically the SlaterStarCodex crowd latches onto this "fuck you, got mine" essay, gushing with praise and admiration about telling it like it is. The entire thing is a rationalization for the thinking illustrated in these quotes: >> I feel the need for a disclaimer of sorts. I am writing about class and some of the injustices of classism, but I do not particularly pretend to position myself as an enemy of classism: I'm pretty classist. And by "pretty classist", I don't mean in the sense of "Everybody's a Little Bit Racist" or "gee, internalized misogyny is hard to totally eradicate". No, I mean closer to Segregation and PUAs. > The idea that "the Left" engages in "Orwellian double-think" with regards to class, is also pretty puzzling. It is not at all puzzling that humans -- regardless of their gender, age, race, nationality -- are bound to identify themselves with particular set of groups to the pointing of "segregating" themselves (and their ways of thinking, mannerisms, etc) from other groups. Left's Orwellian double-think of "insisting the problem doesn't exist and shouldn't be spoken of" is but a cunning way some acculturated groups achieve the said segregation under a moral veil. The only solution to all of this is to cease identifying once and for all, and treat one another as fellow human beings. It will however be eons before the LessWrong/SlaterStarCodex crowd can even get close to such a stage if they were to continue their current modus operandi.