Apart from racial slurs the original email contained “I like that sentence.” I’m sure that’s explained by not being neurotypical and enjoying being contrarian/edgy (see this comment), but I still find it jarring. I think that’s a natural reaction.
Him writing he likes the sentence is in no way equivalent to writing he likes the fact. The sentiment obviously stems from the fact that is rather difficult to publicize such a thought and hence having ‘come out’ comes along with some ‘pride’. But yes, cretain religious conservatives might find the other metaphorial jarring as well. So what.
Why is it that people either have to be unreasonable in one direction or the other? In my view, you’re being just as one-sided here as “the mob” if you make it seem like no one is facing racial adversity. Lots of people are facing adversity for all kinds of reasons, racism is some of it, as are other problems (e.g., mental illnesses are a big problem that’s arguably underrated and happens to affect people from all kinds of backgrounds).
People have been amplified in victimising themselves by a tidal wave of you-know-what for more than a decade now, despite the things being complained about being in decline ever since the sixties. People face all kinds of adversity in the modern world, most of outweight racial adversity by far.
When you imagine the Venn diagram of people who talk a lot about group averages vs people who have actively sought to improve the situation of socio-economically disadvantaged groups, I’d say the intersection isn’t that large. Charles Murray happens to be in the intersection (and it’s awful and unfair how people have shunned him), but this doesn’t change that the intersection is rather small according to my perception.
Yeah, so let’s not make decent people shy away from discussing these matters publicly with a problem solving mindset any more than we already do. Character assassination by Venn diagramm helps no one but the baddies, both on the left and on the right.
Him writing he likes the sentence is in no way equivalent to writing he likes the fact. The sentiment obviously stems from the fact that is rather difficult to publicize such a thought and hence having ‘come out’ comes along with some ‘pride’. But yes, cretain religious conservatives might find the other metaphorial jarring as well. So what.
People have been amplified in victimising themselves by a tidal wave of you-know-what for more than a decade now, despite the things being complained about being in decline ever since the sixties. People face all kinds of adversity in the modern world, most of outweight racial adversity by far.
Yeah, so let’s not make decent people shy away from discussing these matters publicly with a problem solving mindset any more than we already do. Character assassination by Venn diagramm helps no one but the baddies, both on the left and on the right.