dawnlightmelody

"A rationalist community better at following its ideals would be explicitly antifascist/antiracist/antisexist/etc, and explicitly exclusionary of many fascists/racists/reactionaries/etc it currently tolerates. The community's current norms around political tolerance and neutrality are more rooted in exclusion trauma, upper-middle-class conflict avoidance norms, and a desire to protect politically valent false beliefs from scrutiny, rather than any aid those norms bring to the community's rationality."

I've been intending to write a more careful and less pro... (read more)

As one of what I believe to have been the targets/victims of “the local Vassarite” (though multiple people reviewing my initial draft have asked me to mention that Michael Vassar and this person are not actually on good terms), it seems reasonable for me to be the one to reveal the name and give concrete details, so that no one is harmed in the future the way I was nearly harmed. The person being referenced is Olivia Schaefer (known usernames: 4confusedemoji, liv.bsky.social, Taygetea), and this is a brief, roughly chronological account of some concer... (read more)