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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago

I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander

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I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago
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Has anyone listened to the new Behind the Bastards podcast episode that strongly features EA as a negative idea?
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    that the eugenics was mainstream doesn’t make it not eugenics tho, or mean that it wasn’t bad then too

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      No, but Singer does mean stuff like “supply birth control to people who don’t have birth control” and “make them rich and educated so they have fewer kids” which eugenics or not is a real policy response by governments which had to deal with famine pursued

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        singer’s a fucking eugenicist though (as any disabled person would tell you).

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          Right, so go after him for that!

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            i mostly keep noting that he’s not a serious person and should not be treated as such.

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