That’s a fair point. But Rohit’s complaint goes way beyond the statement being harmful or badly constructed. Ze is beating around the bush of a much stronger and unsubstantiated claim that is left unstated for some reason: “Bostrom was and is a racist who thinks that race directly affects intelligence level (and also, his epistemics are shit)”.
What ze does say: “his apology, was, to put it mildly, mealy mouthed and without much substance” “I’m not here to litigate race science.;” “someone who is so clearly in a position of authority...maintaining this kind of view.”; “If you believe there are racial differences in intelligence”; “a third of the community seems to support him” [implied to be a bad thing]; “applauding someone for not lying is great but not if the belief they’re holding is bad”; “Do not mistake ‘sticking with your beliefs’ to be an overriding good, above believing what’s true”; “sticking with the theory that ‘race X is inferior in Y’”; “leaders of your movement is saying these things that are just wrong”.
That’s a fair point. But Rohit’s complaint goes way beyond the statement being harmful or badly constructed. Ze is beating around the bush of a much stronger and unsubstantiated claim that is left unstated for some reason: “Bostrom was and is a racist who thinks that race directly affects intelligence level (and also, his epistemics are shit)”.
What ze does say: “his apology, was, to put it mildly, mealy mouthed and without much substance” “I’m not here to litigate race science.;” “someone who is so clearly in a position of authority...maintaining this kind of view.”; “If you believe there are racial differences in intelligence”; “a third of the community seems to support him” [implied to be a bad thing]; “applauding someone for not lying is great but not if the belief they’re holding is bad”; “Do not mistake ‘sticking with your beliefs’ to be an overriding good, above believing what’s true”; “sticking with the theory that ‘race X is inferior in Y’”; “leaders of your movement is saying these things that are just wrong”.