This is so gratuitous, and so irrelevant to the actual demographics of Israel (most Israeli are neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardi, which shouldn’t be a surprise if you’re vaguely aware of geography) that I have to wonder if this is meant as some sort of weird antisemitic dog whistle. Probably he couldn’t even say himself.
In any case, typical ignorance of Israel stans (and many critics sadly) who love to think of it as a white country.
Foundational values are a political technology that lossily compresses ideology into something more memetic.
Listen, we already know you’re a racist, you don’t have to work so hard to make us hate you!
“when you control for applicant qualifications discounted for affirmative action, there is no net racial discrimination in the ___ sector”
I’m not sure I understand this right (which I imagine is the purpose of his phrasing), but is this basically saying “if you assume black people are less competent, there is no racial discrimination”?
i know i’m not the target audience but my god the drudgery of organising ethicalseeming orgies, and consensual rape parties in particular, makes me feel many feelings. something sisyphean but the boulder is made out of gender roles and power dynamics and the slope is made of … libido? the rationalists might well be the people i trust the least in the world to deal with it.
The ends justify the means but the means are genocide and slavery and the ends are a society with none of those pesky labour rights built on a bedrock of white supremacy. Where’s the dilemma?
I was referring of course to this vision of hell on their webpage!
I wonder if they’ve ever experienced any emotion other than smugness.
congratulations aella on being the only creature on this planet who’s not a strange smirking man i guess!
Sorry phone picture and tangent but wow I sure regret digging and looking at this man’s horrible blog and his horrible commenters
Huh. I don’t like to look into Epstein stuff too much because it’s such a mess of creepy speculation, I know there are “recordings” but is it actually established that he used them for extortion? Compared to like, the very well documented sex crimes?
Yeah!!!
Not to be too much of a fujoshi in public but Shakespeare is writing about a boy not a girl!!!
be like me and read the critique of pure reason and pierre bourdieu’s distinction, you’ll be ready for anything forever
This shit is intended to be ideologically confused. Its purpose is to seduce dissatisfied progressives towards fascism. See also, Grayzone, Caleb Maupin, the history of holocaust denial on the ultra left, there’s plenty of flavours.
“Antisemitism is the socialism of fools” etc. On this subject I’ve always been a fan of this Moishe Postone article: Anti-Semitism and National Socialism
The turn to biology and the desire for a return to “natural origins,” combined with an affirmation of technology, which appear in many forms in the early twentieth century, should be understood as expressions of the antinomic fetish that gives rise to the notion that the concrete is “natural,” and which increasingly presents the socially “natural” in such a way that it is perceived in biological terms. The hypostatization of the concrete and the identification of capital with the manifest abstract underlie a form of “anticapitalism” that seeks to overcome the existing social order from a standpoint which actually remains immanent to that order. Inasmuch as that standpoint is the concrete dimension, this ideology tends to point toward a more concrete and organized form of overt capitalist social synthesis. This form of “anticapitalism,” then, only appears to be looking backward with yearning. As an expression of the capital fetish its real thrust is forward. It emerges in the transition from liberal to bureaucratic capitalism and becomes virulent in a situation of structural crisis.
This form of “anticapitalism,” then, is based on a one-sided attack on the abstract. The abstract and concrete are not seen as constituting an antinomy where the real overcoming of the abstract—of the value dimension—involves the historical overcoming of the antinomy itself as well as each of its terms. Instead there is the one-sided attack on abstract reason, abstract law, or, at another level, money and finance capital. In this sense it is antinomically complementary to liberal thought, where the domination of the abstract remains unquestioned and the distinction between positive and critical reason is not made.
I have now read a number of her short works, among others a daring piece titled Cancel Me and I can report that it’s, shockingly, vapid baby shit.
See also from The Cut
She tells me that she reads lots of mass-shooting manifestos and jokes that incel should be included in the LGBTQ+ acronym.
Wow no way that’s so wacky
To be clear that is exactly why I find the analogy suspect lol, and at the same a tic of this particular milieu so I don’t believe it’s deliberate. Just god lesswrongers sure are weird about stuff.