EDIT: Somewhat in mitigation, having checked one of the threads Scott Alexander did tell Brent “you are creeping me out, tone it down” the first time he started talking about being a fascist who loves domination and torture. Not that mitigating in my view.
It’s kind of the fault of the original post bringing up an unrelated case in the first place.
Also, frankly, I think it is always worth people being made to face the discomfort of the fact that someone widely regarded as a beloved community leader was prepared to ask people to help someone out after they boasted on his blog about their fascism and misogyny and manipulativeness. Worth being only dubiously on topic for that.
I do object to the idea that someone who made accusations against multiple specific individuals is vindicated just because one of those individuals was guilty or the community they were part of has a bad record on abuse. Either they made at least some false accusations or they didn’t. If they did (something I have no knowledge of or opinion about either way), they aren’t somehow really correct anyway, no matter what else is true.
I don’t see the connection between this comment and the post.
EDIT: Somewhat in mitigation, having checked one of the threads Scott Alexander did tell Brent “you are creeping me out, tone it down” the first time he started talking about being a fascist who loves domination and torture. Not that mitigating in my view.
It’s kind of the fault of the original post bringing up an unrelated case in the first place.
Also, frankly, I think it is always worth people being made to face the discomfort of the fact that someone widely regarded as a beloved community leader was prepared to ask people to help someone out after they boasted on his blog about their fascism and misogyny and manipulativeness. Worth being only dubiously on topic for that.
I do object to the idea that someone who made accusations against multiple specific individuals is vindicated just because one of those individuals was guilty or the community they were part of has a bad record on abuse. Either they made at least some false accusations or they didn’t. If they did (something I have no knowledge of or opinion about either way), they aren’t somehow really correct anyway, no matter what else is true.
My comment was meant to address the part of the original post that says “Alice has similarities to Kathy Forth”