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> Why is writing about certain political ideas OK, but > writing about certain other political ideas not OK? Calling socialism and racism the same thing,

> Why is writing about certain political ideas OK, but > writing about certain other political ideas not OK? Calling socialism and racism the same thing, just a "certain political view", is about as intellectually honest as calling speeding and murder the same thing, just a "certain sort of crime".

corporealist 11y ago
Has anyone produced evidence of racism? Most of his detractors on Twitter have been beyond hysterical yet I doubt most of them have read anything he's written, and I've yet to see any examples. What is wrong with people that the presence of Curtis Yarvin makes them feel unsafe? EDIT: This seems to be the one example that is being bandied about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676625 . Replies to that post point out that the case is extremely flimsy. Give me a break. This guy is a rightwinger (outside of his industry) and somebody didn't like it. What an embarrassment. They're proving the right's points.
ShardPhoenix 11y ago
You're right - socialism is much worse than racism. Socialism (actual socialism, not "social democracy" aka capitalist welfare state) destroys countries (eg North Korea), while racism is merely a moderate problem (eg South Korea is very racist but doing fine). edit: To be fair, people are probably more sensitive to racism in America because America is so diverse.
danielHanniger 11y ago
racism has killed very few people compared to socialism.
- newuser88273 11y ago
  If you sum over all micro-insults suffered by victims of racists, caused by billions, possibly trillions of micro-aggressions, who knows how many death-equivalents you might get? Anyway, whomever socialists might have killed, it was long ago: smack in the middle of the dark ages of widespread racism, to be exact. Which means those so-called victims of socialism probably all were racists.

corporealist 11y ago

Has anyone produced evidence of racism? Most of his detractors on Twitter have been beyond hysterical yet I doubt most of them have read anything he's written, and I've yet to see any examples. What is wrong with people that the presence of Curtis Yarvin makes them feel unsafe? EDIT: This seems to be the one example that is being bandied about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676625 . Replies to that post point out that the case is extremely flimsy. Give me a break. This guy is a rightwinger (outside of his industry) and somebody didn't like it. What an embarrassment. They're proving the right's points.

ShardPhoenix 11y ago

You're right - socialism is much worse than racism. Socialism (actual socialism, not "social democracy" aka capitalist welfare state) destroys countries (eg North Korea), while racism is merely a moderate problem (eg South Korea is very racist but doing fine). edit: To be fair, people are probably more sensitive to racism in America because America is so diverse.

danielHanniger 11y ago

racism has killed very few people compared to socialism.

newuser88273 11y ago
If you sum over all micro-insults suffered by victims of racists, caused by billions, possibly trillions of micro-aggressions, who knows how many death-equivalents you might get? Anyway, whomever socialists might have killed, it was long ago: smack in the middle of the dark ages of widespread racism, to be exact. Which means those so-called victims of socialism probably all were racists.