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Usually, when one is reading a text, especially one written for persuasion, the first question to ask is, "what is the author trying to say?" Reasonable people can disagree about w…

Moldbug believes that some ethnic groups are genetically predisposed to being better slaves. If you think he came to that conclusion after a dispassionate evaluation of all availab…

What is the minimal change to that statement that would make it racist? It comes off as racist to me, but I'm interested to hear your perspective.

"Foreigners have a different culture that I don't like, so I'm going to keep all of them out" seems like a pretty racist statement to me. You have to do some serious mental gymnast…

Assuming that writer isn't doing it just to obfuscate, holy hell they need an editor. More words does not make something better, but I can see how it would impress a certain segmen…

To be fair, this is the only one of his suits against Gawker that he's disclosed having funded, so it's quite difficult to judge their overall merits.

You're aware of the downsides of tribalism, but seriously lack self-awareness like most people who complain about tribalism. Especially if you think you've already made adjustments…

No greater indication of tribalism than someone salivating over "Western frontier style justice."

If you're going to call out people for not reading your post, at least have the courage to answer my response to your initial post.

Please enlighten the rest of us with what the more plausible explanations are.