Okay, what does not tolerating actual racism look like to you? What is the specific thing you’re asking for here?
Up until recently, whenever someone criticized rationality or EA for being racist or for supporting racists, I could say something like the following:
“I don’t actually know of anyone in these communities who is racist or supports racism. From what I hear, some people in the rationality community occasionally discuss group differences in intelligence, because this was discussed in writings by Scott Alexander, which a lot of people have read and so it gives them shared context. But I think this doesn’t come from a bad place. I’m pretty sure people who are central to these communities (EA and rationality) would pretty much without exception speak up strongly against actual racists.”
It would be nice if I could still say something like that, but it no longer seems like I can, because a surprising number of people have said things like “person x is quite racist, but [...] interesting ideas.”
Up until recently, whenever someone criticized rationality or EA for being racist or for supporting racists, I could say something like the following:
“I don’t actually know of anyone in these communities who is racist or supports racism. From what I hear, some people in the rationality community occasionally discuss group differences in intelligence, because this was discussed in writings by Scott Alexander, which a lot of people have read and so it gives them shared context. But I think this doesn’t come from a bad place. I’m pretty sure people who are central to these communities (EA and rationality) would pretty much without exception speak up strongly against actual racists.”
It would be nice if I could still say something like that, but it no longer seems like I can, because a surprising number of people have said things like “person x is quite racist, but [...] interesting ideas.”