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Hrm. I'm not really sure exactly what he's referring to there but it does kind of come off as something someone would say if their ideas on race realism were b
by jgh 9y ago
Hrm. I'm not really sure exactly what he's referring to there but it does kind of come off as something someone would say if their ideas on race realism were being shot down by people. Not that Tim Ferris is such a person (I have no idea) but you can see it all over the internet and wider media these days. Small, seemingly innocuous, doubts being sewn into the greater conversation of the time. The current cultural battle is an enormous push for civil rights, recognition, and acceptance. It's faux-pas to attack people who have generally been targets in the recent past (transgender people, for example), so the proxy war is "free speech". "My free speech is being encroached because I can't speak realistically about [transgender people, black people, whatever]".
Note: I do not live, and have not lived, in Silicon Valley. So it could be my context is wrong.
- mistermann 9y agoI have no idea of what his exact meaning was, but your comment to me seems like a perfect example. You have absolutely no context of any of these conversations, yet your first presumption that he has some opinions on race realism? This mainstream behavior of seeing a racist behind every rock, or every innocent comment having some underlying racial motivation is I suspect exactly what he's referring to.
- jgh 9y agoNo I didn't say that he's a race realism pusher, what I'm saying is that it reads like the kind of shit you'd see someone who is write. I'm not sure if you're new to the internet or not but there is a major culture war happening these days, and there is a lot of fighting over free speech that is just a proxy for other agendas.
- mistermann 9y agoOh I'm aware, and you are clearly on the side that thinks it is 100% right and everyone better step in line with your beliefs, or else they're racist....oh sorry, on second thought, they just sound like someone who is racist.