I was following a thread from August on Yvain’s site. The author of the blog post we are discussing added a comment there on January 4 and Yvain replied. I should have included this link in my original write-up. And since I’ve started criticizing myself, I should have left out my half-baked musings on racism and spent more effort on summarizing the post I was linking to. For example, it might have been a good idea to quote the following:
If you prefer to not have any truck with the word ‘privilege’, substitute ‘the less likelihood of having to anticipate culturally-permissible threats to their personhood they have lived with’, since that’s the specific manifestation of privilege I mean. Sadly, that is a long and unwieldy phrase.
This shows that the author is able to taboo words in order to improve readers’ understanding. A communication skill justifiably prized on LessWrong.
I find striking the addendum which is mainly a list of examples of objecting to tabooing words, but includes a footnote tabooing “politically correct.” (though I find that particular tabooing in bad faith, unlike the example of “privilege” in the main text)
How did that blog post come to your attention? It appears to have just been created, and that is the only post on it.
I was following a thread from August on Yvain’s site. The author of the blog post we are discussing added a comment there on January 4 and Yvain replied. I should have included this link in my original write-up. And since I’ve started criticizing myself, I should have left out my half-baked musings on racism and spent more effort on summarizing the post I was linking to. For example, it might have been a good idea to quote the following:
This shows that the author is able to taboo words in order to improve readers’ understanding. A communication skill justifiably prized on LessWrong.
I find striking the addendum which is mainly a list of examples of objecting to tabooing words, but includes a footnote tabooing “politically correct.” (though I find that particular tabooing in bad faith, unlike the example of “privilege” in the main text)