Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
I am actively attempting to deradicalize myself. I dislike puritanism and intolerance. DM me if you want my Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
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Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2mo ago
The main argument against repealing the Civil Rights Act is that if people have the option to discriminate against racial minorities in jobs, housing, and school admissions, they will do so. In order to know if this is true, we would need to look at a country that has a similar racial mix to America, but no anti-discrimination laws, then compare the life outcomes of Africans or other historically oppressed groups in America to their life outcomes in that country.
Can anyone think of such a country to use as a test case?
I recently found out that France does not have anti-discrimination laws, but also that they don't collect data on race, so it might not be possible to use them as a comparison.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2mo ago
I have no idea how to do this, but it should be the top priority of any libertarian think tank.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
6mo ago
Yes, another top level comment about The Origins of Woke from me, in the same thread on the same week. But this is about something else. I had an epiphany while reading the book.
I've wondered for many years why Marxism is more socially acceptable than racism when it's responsible for even more deaths than the Holocaust. It's because companies are (de facto) legally required to fire racists, but they're not required to fire Marxists. In fact, firing a Marxist for merely being Marxist would be illegal in California.
California has a state law against firing people for their political beliefs, but it didn't protect James Damore, who was fired in compliance with the law against creating a hostile work environment for protected groups.
It all adds up.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
6mo ago
The only way out is through de-escalation and the only permanent de-escalation is through formal legal recognition of Palestinians in the territories as full citizens in a democratic system. This might come from the establishment of a Palestinian state
Does Gaza not already count as a Palestinian state? Ignoring the blockade, they have sovereignty.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
7mo ago
We are made of matter. Matter is not created or destroyed. It just changes form. Right now, for a brief moment in time, it has taken on a form that is self-aware. That's you. After you cease to be, where does your matter go? It goes everywhere. And because time is infinite, it will eventually reconnect. Every last atom. Infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters, after all.
And if that is inevitable, it is also inevitable that your matter will take on a self-aware form again, eventually.
Reincarnation is real.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
9mo ago
I want him to acknowledge the article and say that his views changed, but not grovel.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
4mo ago
Great post! Thank you!
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
5mo ago
I see your point, but man, rightists sure loved getting involved with the less defensible J6ers.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
7mo ago
#4 hadn't occurred to me. I'm conflating the extremely online dissident right with anti-Semitism in general. As for b, I was making that assumption because they ostensibly share my goal of wanting to understand anti-Semitism, but they are richer, likely more well-educated, and do this as a job instead of a hobby.
That you see modern anti-Semitism and historical anti-Semitism as the same phenomenon rather than at least two distinct ones indicates that we're looking at the issue very differently. Racism, and tribalism in general, is a part of human nature, but they can be strengthened or weakened by one's environment.
(Just realized that I'm answering these points out of order, but I am multitasking.) I take people at face value in general until I've observed them enough to conclude that they're being deceptive. Maybe I'm being more charitable to the people I'm describing than I should because I relate to them. I share their grievances, but the difference is that I don't hold these grievances against Jews as a group, despite the explicit insistence that I should by the far right and the implicit insistence that i should by the progressive left.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
7mo ago
God, I love you. This is why I come here. Thank you for writing this out.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
"Historically". This ain't the 50's.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
Anti-white racists (who aren't considered racist), yes. But do pro-white racists have a major impact?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
I appreciate you as a dissenting voice, but I genuinely believe Hanania's upcoming book is the most important conservative book of the last 20 years and possibly the most important American book of the past decade. I can't afford for him to lose status because I can't afford for this book not to be a smashing success.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
6mo ago
If AI does that, then how fucked I am depends on how much my writing style has changed over the years, and I certainly have no way of knowing.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
6mo ago
If they only do it when the government isn't cooperating with them to uncover the identities of mass murderers, then it doesn't seem like a problem to me, but you're right that it does call their sovereignty into question.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
6mo ago
You don't think it was law?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
7mo ago
That makes sense. I still think his book is significantly more important than any other anti-woke book, though, so it's too bad he's gotten in the way of his own success.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
7mo ago
Good argument. Now tell me what to read instead.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
7mo ago
I love the quokka post, but Zero HP Lovecraft blocked me on Twitter so I can't see it anymore.
Your critique of my behavior is a strong one. I don't have evidence because I'm spouting conjecture in these instances, some of which is wild (the bullying thing) and some of which I think is reasonable (what we're talking about now). If conjecture is against the rules, then I'll stop out of a desire not to get banned.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
7mo ago
You make a good point. But it's almost inconceivable to me that intelligent people would do things that provoke anti-Semitism when the anti-Semites literally say "You are making us anti-Semitic by doing this." Maybe they are as unwilling to believe that anti-Semites tell the truth about their own motivations as I am that the ADL tells the truth about theirs. Maybe their internal monologue is "Don't believe the anti-Semites, for they are using Jewish goyish trickery!"
Look at that, I'm still speaking of the ADL as though it's a single mind and not a bunch of minds working together.
The logic of the anti-Semitic strongman ("we dislike you because you are censorious and hypocritical") is just so much more reasonable to me than that of the ADL activist weakmen ("they dislike us Just Because, and any explanation they give is a lie, Just Because") that I have to assume the latter is aware of the discrepancy on some level. Maybe I'm being insufficiently charitable to the latter, but that is how I perceive them.
As for the point you and others have made about how these people couldn't have cynical motivations without being caught, they could just be using coded language that only they understand, and refuse to let in anyone who says the quiet part out loud. Nobody ever says "get rid of cishet white men" they say "increase diversity". Nobody ever says "be racist", they say "be anti-racist". That sort of thing.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
Thank you so much. I wish I had more to say than that, but you have been a huge help.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
I mean, sure, it can exist outside time. But I thought the multiverse was just a trope in fiction, like time travel.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
Thank you for the links, and it's too bad that you dislike me.
This Wikipedia article has not only amused me greatly, but provided hope, something that I didn't think a Wikipedia article could ever do. I thought we had reached a point where saying "trans women are men" was socially equivalent to using a racial slur, a signal that you oppose trans rights and/or hate trans people outright. Now, there is a popular meme that plays on the fact that trans women are men, while acknowledging that it's okay for them to live in a way that's consistent with who they want to be.
I think that's what's happening.
See, I mainly know the word "bussy" in the context of discussing hypothetical sex with trans women, but that's because of the kind of people I talk to and the kinds of things I read. Is this use of the word an outlier? Is it mostly used to refer to homosexual cis men (which makes the joke much less funny)? Would a lefty who uses the term to refer to cis mens' anuses be offended if I used it to talk about trans women's anuses?
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