Can you go ahead and reread the comment of mine that you are arguing against? I think you're generalizing an argument that wasn't intended to be so. Here it is

Can you go ahead and reread the comment of mine that you are arguing against? I think you're generalizing an argument that wasn't intended to be so. Here it is for ease: > Or the creator of Roko's Baselisk openly stating recently on twitter that he wants "Traditional Futurism" ("Traditional" being a traditional (heh) dogwhistle for the alt-right [rational wiki article to dog whistles]) My post was talking about a very specific group of people (The Less Wrong community, and the Neo-Reactionary movement -- although in recent years Rationalist organizations and magazines like New Humanist have distanced themselves and placed themselves in opposition to those communities), and in the case of that specific quote I think it is clear that I was talking about the meaning of "Traditional" in the context of those tweets. I don't think it's a valid or accurate argument to generalize my call-out of the word "traditional", within that to suddenly be about every single usage, ever, of the word "traditional" -- and in the process completely ignore the associations and context of that word. Perhaps if I had known in advance that it would be mislead, I would have written: > "Traditional" in this case being a common dogwhistle used in neo-reactionary and pseudo-rationalist circles. In addition, the point of dog whistles (if you read the Rational Wiki article) is that it is a signal that people outside of the culture will easily dismiss, or think benign. There is a reason that the Traditional Values Coalition[0] is called that, or the Traditional Britain Group[1] is named so. And likewise there is a reason that a major money fund in the anti-abortion movement is called "Focus on the Family"[2]. The point of using them is that they are brushed off, pushed aside, or excused in exactly the same way you are doing, by well-meaning folks who are not present in those cultures. [0]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Traditional_Values_Coalition https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Traditional_Values_Coalition [1]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Traditional_Britain_Group https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Traditional_Britain_Group [2]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family