I have mixed feelings about this post. LW was right on masks early—and for foreseeable, principled reasons—and I think that that’s important. OTOH, this post gives off a “let’s sneer at outgroup” vibe, which feels icky to me. I’ve also been concerned by the rise in politics-related content recently.
This might just point to me changing my feed’s visibility settings, but I wanted to note my concern.
I agree both with you and jimrandomh. I originally started writing this as a shortform, but then I got carried away and it became too long for shortform, so I posted it as an article. I agree that this doesn’t belong to the frontpage, and perhaps to LW in general, regardless of how much karma it may get (although the karma of course makes me happy, as a reflection of the fact that my text made someone else happy).
The outgroup in my opinion completely deserves the sneer, for reasons explained in Matthew 26:52. LW is not the right place to put it. I don’t have a personal blog currently, and this seemed worth writing somewhere. Apologies to everyone who feels bad about it; I will not do this often.
This is indeed one of the things the Frontpage vs Personal Blog distinction is meant to handle; people are attracted to Criticize The Outgroup and Interpersonal Conflict posts, in ways they wouldn’t endorse given a bit of distance and which don’t seem to be reliably handled through the karma system.
I’ve also been concerned by the rise in politics-related content recently.
Thank you, I’ve now noticed I’m getting in more and more ideologically charged discussions in this site lately. I’m certain I’m not the only one who’s pushing toward adding ideological charge in at least most of these, but I realised I should hold myself to stricter standards for what I write if I notice I’m in a sensible area.
I have mixed feelings about this post. LW was right on masks early—and for foreseeable, principled reasons—and I think that that’s important. OTOH, this post gives off a “let’s sneer at outgroup” vibe, which feels icky to me. I’ve also been concerned by the rise in politics-related content recently.
This might just point to me changing my feed’s visibility settings, but I wanted to note my concern.
I agree both with you and jimrandomh. I originally started writing this as a shortform, but then I got carried away and it became too long for shortform, so I posted it as an article. I agree that this doesn’t belong to the frontpage, and perhaps to LW in general, regardless of how much karma it may get (although the karma of course makes me happy, as a reflection of the fact that my text made someone else happy).
The outgroup in my opinion completely deserves the sneer, for reasons explained in Matthew 26:52. LW is not the right place to put it. I don’t have a personal blog currently, and this seemed worth writing somewhere. Apologies to everyone who feels bad about it; I will not do this often.
This is indeed one of the things the Frontpage vs Personal Blog distinction is meant to handle; people are attracted to Criticize The Outgroup and Interpersonal Conflict posts, in ways they wouldn’t endorse given a bit of distance and which don’t seem to be reliably handled through the karma system.
Thank you, I’ve now noticed I’m getting in more and more ideologically charged discussions in this site lately. I’m certain I’m not the only one who’s pushing toward adding ideological charge in at least most of these, but I realised I should hold myself to stricter standards for what I write if I notice I’m in a sensible area.