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From the essay: "The more extreme will even accuse you of specific heresies they imagine you must have in mind, though if there's more than one heresy current i
by ksdale 6y ago
From the essay: "The more extreme will even accuse you of specific heresies they imagine you must have in mind, though if there's more than one heresy current in your time, these accusations will tend to be nondeterministic: you must either be an xist or a yist."
- wry_discontent 6y agoYes, in life I make inferences on incomplete data. Racists online regularly complain about PC run amok and cancel culture, so if you complain about "cancel culture" too much in purely abstract terms, I don't really trust you. There exist people I'd like to cancel in the harshest sense. Cite specific instances, and maybe we can be on the same side.
- ksdale 6y agoI think your inference-making algorithm doesn't distinguish between people who earnestly hold strong beliefs about speech, and racists. Perhaps there are so many more racists that it doesn't matter...