No, sorry, they are not. And not all of these are pitfalls I’ve witnessed specifically in EA outreach—the atheist/skeptic community and campus conservative/libertarian groups are where I watched a lot of these mistakes get made.
I think I would have been considerably more amenable to your post if you had crafted subtler quotes that could more plausibly be attributed to an EA. As it stands, it feels like straw (wo)manning.
Sorry for sounding so negative! I should have said that I thought the post was well-written overall and made many good points about how we can learn from other movements. However, I still think the specific quotes used were unhelpful.
No, sorry, they are not. And not all of these are pitfalls I’ve witnessed specifically in EA outreach—the atheist/skeptic community and campus conservative/libertarian groups are where I watched a lot of these mistakes get made.
I think I would have been considerably more amenable to your post if you had crafted subtler quotes that could more plausibly be attributed to an EA. As it stands, it feels like straw (wo)manning.
Your statement here suggests we have nothing to learn from other movements, which seems an unhelpful position to take.
Sorry for sounding so negative! I should have said that I thought the post was well-written overall and made many good points about how we can learn from other movements. However, I still think the specific quotes used were unhelpful.