Moldbug bafflingly decides to call black people “Negroes” (while offering some weird historical justification for doing so). …
It’s not that baffling if you know where Moldbug’s ideas come from. Since he is effectively restating the ideas of Thomas Carlyle and other 19th century conservatives (admittedly in modernized terms), it’s quite fitting in a way that he should lift some of their lexicon as well.
It’s not that baffling if you know where Moldbug’s ideas come from. Since he is effectively restating the ideas of Thomas Carlyle and other 19th century conservatives (admittedly in modernized terms), it’s quite fitting in a way that he should lift some of their lexicon as well.