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> Suppose in the future there is a movement to ban the color yellow. Proposals to paint anything yellow are denounced as "yellowist"... This made me remember t

> Suppose in the future there is a movement to ban the color yellow. Proposals to paint anything yellow are denounced as "yellowist"... This made me remember the essay "Against Murderism" by Scott Alexander. If someone would like to read a somewhat similar article to what's posted here, written by (in my opinion) a devastatingly better essayist than Graham with a lot more knowledge about human psychology and understanding of how culture works, I definitely recommend it and Alexander's popular blog, "Slatestar Codex," in general. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/

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spumoni 7y ago
And if you would like to visit a place that is tacitly backed by Scott Alexander as a place to discuss cultural phenomena with a wide variety of backgrounds, visit https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/
- yourbandsucks 7y ago
  That's not at all how he described it in his Scott alexander-length blog post on the matter.
  - spumoni 7y ago
    Why don't we pull up a direct quote, then? > At this point this stops being my story. A group of pro-CW-thread mods led by ZorbaTHut, cjet79, and baj2235 set up r/TheMotte, a new subreddit for continuing the Culture War Thread tradition. After a week, the top post already has 4,243 comments, so it looks like the move went pretty well. Despite fears – which I partly shared – that the transition would not be good for the Thread, early signs suggest it has survived intact. I’m hopeful this can be a win-win situation, freeing me from a pretty serious burden while the Thread itself expands and flourishes under the leadership of a more anonymous group of people. Not sure that proves your point.
    - yourbandsucks 7y ago
      Sorry, I thought you were implying something nasty. I like TheMotte, although there's a few opinions I see that make my blood boil.

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spumoni 7y ago

And if you would like to visit a place that is tacitly backed by Scott Alexander as a place to discuss cultural phenomena with a wide variety of backgrounds, visit https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/

yourbandsucks 7y ago
That's not at all how he described it in his Scott alexander-length blog post on the matter.
- spumoni 7y ago
  Why don't we pull up a direct quote, then? > At this point this stops being my story. A group of pro-CW-thread mods led by ZorbaTHut, cjet79, and baj2235 set up r/TheMotte, a new subreddit for continuing the Culture War Thread tradition. After a week, the top post already has 4,243 comments, so it looks like the move went pretty well. Despite fears – which I partly shared – that the transition would not be good for the Thread, early signs suggest it has survived intact. I’m hopeful this can be a win-win situation, freeing me from a pretty serious burden while the Thread itself expands and flourishes under the leadership of a more anonymous group of people. Not sure that proves your point.
  - yourbandsucks 7y ago
    Sorry, I thought you were implying something nasty. I like TheMotte, although there's a few opinions I see that make my blood boil.