"Cachebusters"
authorM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <[email protected]>
Sun, 5 Mar 2017 00:31:38 +0000 (16:31 -0800)
committerM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <[email protected]>
Sun, 5 Mar 2017 00:31:38 +0000 (16:31 -0800)
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+Title: Cachebusters
+Date: 2017-03-04 16:26
+Category: other
+Tags: cathartic, politics
+
+"So, I _agree_ that there's a potential for public discussion of certain theories in psychology to have harmful social consequences, and I agree that we should take that into account when deciding whether to discuss something publicly.
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+"However, I also think it's important to be _specific_ about the putatively-harmful social consequences you're afraid of, rather than just accepting the [Blue Tribe's](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/) [cached thought](http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/) that all discussion of group differences is _ipso facto_ harmful.
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+"If the _specific_ thing you're worried about is something like, 'Well, maybe the Red Tribe will win an [election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2016) and then they'll use their power to do _bad things_,' well, guess what? It's _[morning in America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_in_America), motherfuckers!_"