Maybe it’s just me, but your comments here seem a bit hostile.
I’m expressing disagreement with a common meme around here. Of course that will seem a bit hostile. But I shall not engage in any red-pill framing of that uninteresting fact.
If you are arguing that things you can’t say are toxic outside LW for the untrained masses
I’m not talking about the things you can’t say, but about the idea of things you can’t say. That idea is a shield against reality, a mirror that makes everything behind it seem real, when it is just a distorted reflection of oneself.
Come on, this is a straw man. The OP was talking about abusers, not fictional extremists.
Ok, I would not seriously attribute the view I described to anyone on LW. But there are people who explicitly believe in exactly that view, exactly as extremely as I portrayed it, and surround it with red-pill rhetoric. There is at least one on LW (who has not posted in this thread) who holds at least to a lesser form of men’s rightful power over women, and who I confidently expect would express approval of the joke in the original article. This is not fiction; I did not make any of it up.
Tone is usually uninteresting, but I think it’s worth noting in the case of these “red pill” ideas; The red-pill types tend to use careful argument (because they have to to be taken seriously) while the maintream responders use weak arguments and social bullying (because they are surrounded by fellow believers).
That is not my observation. The article linked here is a good example of red-pill performance ranting. The whole thing could just as easily be expressed as platitudes of Deep Wisdom: “ask not what other people can do for you, but what you can do for them”, “to give is to receive”, etc., and in other places it would be. There’s not much argument there, careful or otherwise. Of course not—it’s cracked.com, that’s the sort of thing that people go there for. I previously linked another example of the genre here.
Working through the Google hits for “red pill” turns up few specimens of conspicuous rationality, and to talk about “mainstream responders” is already to have yielded to the tainted insight of the red pill merchant.
I’m expressing disagreement with a common meme around here. Of course that will seem a bit hostile. But I shall not engage in any red-pill framing of that uninteresting fact.
I’m not talking about the things you can’t say, but about the idea of things you can’t say. That idea is a shield against reality, a mirror that makes everything behind it seem real, when it is just a distorted reflection of oneself.
Ok, I would not seriously attribute the view I described to anyone on LW. But there are people who explicitly believe in exactly that view, exactly as extremely as I portrayed it, and surround it with red-pill rhetoric. There is at least one on LW (who has not posted in this thread) who holds at least to a lesser form of men’s rightful power over women, and who I confidently expect would express approval of the joke in the original article. This is not fiction; I did not make any of it up.
That is not my observation. The article linked here is a good example of red-pill performance ranting. The whole thing could just as easily be expressed as platitudes of Deep Wisdom: “ask not what other people can do for you, but what you can do for them”, “to give is to receive”, etc., and in other places it would be. There’s not much argument there, careful or otherwise. Of course not—it’s cracked.com, that’s the sort of thing that people go there for. I previously linked another example of the genre here.
Working through the Google hits for “red pill” turns up few specimens of conspicuous rationality, and to talk about “mainstream responders” is already to have yielded to the tainted insight of the red pill merchant.