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Well, maybe not untrue, but are they meaningful? The rationalist movement ' has curious connections with "race realists" and monarchists.' What counts as a curi
by dash2 6y ago
Well, maybe not untrue, but are they meaningful? The rationalist movement ' has curious connections with "race realists" and monarchists.' What counts as a curious connection? You've cited one person, Moldbug. It 'rarely survives contact with mainstream scholarship'? Theses survive, or don't survive, contact with scholarship. I don't know what it means to say that a movement doesn't.
- XorNot 6y agoIt would be reasonable to say that a movement may not be all that interested in being critically studied if they've got a conclusion they like and want to keep it. Staying "at the fringes" and claiming oppression is a good way to avoid having to answer critical scrutiny, or react to new evidence. Once you start having scholars and other official positions in the hierarchy of discussion, you can't just ignore what you don't like any more.