No need to apologize; in retrospect it’s clear to me how you could have made that association. “HBD” (a term which I find quite silly) is not among my intellectual leitmotifs. In fact, I’m still not sure what to think of these controversies.
That said, however dangerous and incendiary this topic might be in the mainstream, on LW it’s rarely approached but not at all problematic in the sense of inflaming passions and destroying discourse. Those few times I’ve seen it raised here, the discussion was entirely polite, knowledgeable, and without moral condemnations and protestations of offense. What exactly determines the patterns of dangerous discourse-breaking topics on LW and makes them different from the mainstream is a quite fascinating question, in my view.
No need to apologize; in retrospect it’s clear to me how you could have made that association. “HBD” (a term which I find quite silly) is not among my intellectual leitmotifs. In fact, I’m still not sure what to think of these controversies.
That said, however dangerous and incendiary this topic might be in the mainstream, on LW it’s rarely approached but not at all problematic in the sense of inflaming passions and destroying discourse. Those few times I’ve seen it raised here, the discussion was entirely polite, knowledgeable, and without moral condemnations and protestations of offense. What exactly determines the patterns of dangerous discourse-breaking topics on LW and makes them different from the mainstream is a quite fascinating question, in my view.