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He said "being a nerdy male might not make me “privileged”—that it might even have put me into one of society’s least privileged classes". http://www.scottaa
by jacalata 9y ago
He said "being a nerdy male might not make me “privileged”—that it might even have put me into one of society’s least privileged classes".
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664 http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664
- defen 9y agoHe said that the thought that it might be true would be completely alien to some people's way of seeing things. Which turned out to be proven true by the utterly unhinged way people reacted. It was like he had suggested that maybe the earth revolved around the sun.
- jacalata 9y agoYes. The thought that hacker news might now be a haven for nazis masquerading as classical liberals defending free speech is probably quite horrifying to some people as well.
- defen 9y agoI get the sense that you're trolling, rather than engaging in good-faith discussion.
- jacalata 9y agoA good faith effort to see if you managed to refrain from reacting as though I had actually stated that as a fact rather than merely mentioning it as a thought. I was curious to see if you actually had such a strange understanding of the phrase that you didn't think he was advancing it as a position, or if you were simply arguing that it was a plausible interpretation of the phrase.
- defen 9y agoI know what you were doing, that's why I suggested that you were trolling - posting with dishonest motivation.