Perhaps it belonged here in the open thread; I’m not experienced enough to judge that. There are also complaints that it was obvious and had no significant rationality-related issues, but I humbly invite people to consider whether these may be rationalizations—when evaluated against the relevance of posts in this open thread.
Most off-topic discussions here are relatively harmless to LW image. You pretty much chose the most taboo subject available, and you didn’t even try to justify that by making it relevant to rationality. You could have tested the waters by making comments first, and actually participating in discussions available, but no, you just had to start by pushing your political agenda.
Let’s think civil liberties issues here. All the interesting civil liberties issues are about low-status cases—if a group or some idea is popular with the majority, then no one is complaining and the “civil liberties” concept never comes up. Sometimes you might want to override your ordinary feelings about status to consider an oppressed group.
I feel bad for the oppressed group in question, but pushing a singular political cause is bottom priority. LW doesn’t exist to fight for any specific group’s civil rights, especially if it happens at the expense of its other goals.
So there are questions here of whether people want to personally change their status judgment based on those clarifications.
The status judgement is based on people in general, outsiders and potential newcomers. LW isn’t an isolated bubble.
With regard to “tainting the site”, there is an issue as to whether those clarifications can be conveyed in some way to avoid the fears of harm to the site based on low status. Does anyone want to clarify the risk of harm to the site?
You could talk about civil liberties in general, and why pushing rights for marginal groups is more important for rationalists than other things. If you can’t do that, then all your other efforts are futile.
Most off-topic discussions here are relatively harmless to LW image. You pretty much chose the most taboo subject available, and you didn’t even try to justify that by making it relevant to rationality. You could have tested the waters by making comments first, and actually participating in discussions available, but no, you just had to start by pushing your political agenda.
I feel bad for the oppressed group in question, but pushing a singular political cause is bottom priority. LW doesn’t exist to fight for any specific group’s civil rights, especially if it happens at the expense of its other goals.
The status judgement is based on people in general, outsiders and potential newcomers. LW isn’t an isolated bubble.
You could talk about civil liberties in general, and why pushing rights for marginal groups is more important for rationalists than other things. If you can’t do that, then all your other efforts are futile.