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I don’t have a developed enough view to argue this well. I’ve just been listening to a lot of Ezra Klein and engaging with a lot of leftist sources for a bit no
by philosopher1234 5y ago
I don’t have a developed enough view to argue this well. I’ve just been listening to a lot of Ezra Klein and engaging with a lot of leftist sources for a bit now and it’s made me much more sympathetic to these views, which previously seemed pretty empty and useless to me.
So, yea, I can’t really do it justice. It was sad for me because I’ve engaged with you in the past in defenses of Go and you made some really insightful points, so I began to count you as one of my HN heroes, and all my HN heroes (and other online heroes of mine) have left leaning politics from what I gather, so learning that you perhaps don’t required me to do some reconciling.
But yea, I can’t give a specific accounting of racist institutions.
- throwaway894345 5y agoI’m flattered, but I stay away from partisan politics as they’re often tribalistic and devoid of principle. I have a handful of left-wing positions (e.g., universal healthcare, environmentalism, etc) and I remain open minded about left-wing positions, but mostly I’m a liberal in the philosophical sense—free speech, equality, human rights, democracy, etc (I have a few right-wing positions as well, like a general preference for market-based solutions). The BLM adjacent ideologies conflict with my liberal values.