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The author of the linked article is a heretic from left-wing ideological orthodoxy, and therefore you should disregard anything he has to say on any topic whats
by HideousKojima 4y ago
The author of the linked article is a heretic from left-wing ideological orthodoxy, and therefore you should disregard anything he has to say on any topic whatsoever, no matter how well or poorly argued. After all, you don't want to associate with heretics, right?
- tptacek 4y agoWhile not endorsing the sentiment that we should disregard literally everything this author ever says, there are a variety of ways to be a "heretic from left-wing ideological orthodoxy", and "racial supremacist" is a particularly bad one. The objection isn't simply that the author doesn't believer workers should own the means of production.
- HideousKojima 4y agoI don't see Scott arguing for "racial supremacy" in any of the quoted emails though? He said he thinks genetic differences in intelligence are likely real, which is fundamentally different from "race x is superior to race y."
- tptacek 4y agoYou didn't type the links he approvingly cited in by hand, and pull them up in archive.org, to see what they said, did you? That makes sense --- it's a pain --- but why would you hang your argument on the premise that nobody else took the time to do it? The links lay it pretty bare. Somebody should take the time to further archive them, since this author keeps popping up, and, inconvenient though this truth is, it remains the apparent truth that he sent emails saying he believed this stuff.