Reconsider the comment to the hypothetical LW meeting I imagined. Do you really believe such a comment would be “downvoted to oblivion”?
If the prevailing belief was that whites/men are somehow inherently superior to everyone else, then yes. Otherwise it would be a simple assertion everyone happens to agree with, and hence probably less likely to attract their ire.
If the prevailing belief was that whites/men are somehow inherently superior to everyone else, then yes. Otherwise it would be a simple assertion everyone happens to agree with, and hence probably less likely to attract their ire.
Then it wouldn’t be so downvoted, as Eliezer claimed comments of this form would.