This comment does a good job of summarising the “classical liberal” position on this conflict, but makes no effort to imagine or engage with the views of more moderate pro-SJ EAs (of whom there are plenty), who might object strongly to cultural-revolution comparisons or be wary of SSC given the current controversy.
As I already said in response to Buck’s comment:
I agree that post was very bad (I left a long comment explaining part of why I strong-downvoted it). But I think there’s a version of that post, that is phrased more moderately and tries harder to be charitable to its opponents, that I think would get a lot more sympathy from the left of EA. (I expect I would still disagree with it quite strongly.)
As you say, there aren’t many right-wing EAs. The key conflict I’m worried about is between centre/centre-left/libertarian-leaning EAs and left-wing/SJ-sympathetic EAs[1]. So suggesting I need to find a right-wing piece to make the comparison is missing the point.
(This comment also quotes an old version of my post, which has since been changed on the basis of feedback. I’m a bit confused about that, since some of the changes were made more than a day ago – I tried logging out and the updated version is still the one I see. Can you update your quote?)
This comment does a good job of summarising the “classical liberal” position on this conflict, but makes no effort to imagine or engage with the views of more moderate pro-SJ EAs (of whom there are plenty), who might object strongly to cultural-revolution comparisons or be wary of SSC given the current controversy.
As I already said in response to Buck’s comment:
As you say, there aren’t many right-wing EAs. The key conflict I’m worried about is between centre/centre-left/libertarian-leaning EAs and left-wing/SJ-sympathetic EAs[1]. So suggesting I need to find a right-wing piece to make the comparison is missing the point.
(This comment also quotes an old version of my post, which has since been changed on the basis of feedback. I’m a bit confused about that, since some of the changes were made more than a day ago – I tried logging out and the updated version is still the one I see. Can you update your quote?)
I also don’t want conservative-leaning EAs to be driven from the movement, but that isn’t the central thing I’m worried about here.
What current controversy are you saying might make moderate pro-SJ EAs more wary of SSC?