I found many responses to that survey odious for various reasons and share your concerns in that regard. It makes me uneasy to think that friends/fellow movement members may have said some of those things.
However, the post you linked features a survey that was reposted in quite a few different places. I wouldn’t necessarily consider people who filled it out to be “submitters to the EA Forum.” (For example, some of them seem to detest the EA movement in general, such that I hope they don’t spend much time here for their own sake.) That said, it’s impossible to tell for sure.
If the New York Times were to run a similar survey, I’d guess that many respondents would express similar views. But I don’t think that would say much, if anything, about the community of people who regularly read the Times. I expect that people in the EA community overwhelmingly support racial equality and abhor white supremacy.
(Additional context: 75% of EA Survey respondents are on the political left or center-left; roughly 3% are right or center-right. That seems to make the community more politically left-leaning than the Yale student body, though the comparison is inexact.)
I found many responses to that survey odious for various reasons and share your concerns in that regard. It makes me uneasy to think that friends/fellow movement members may have said some of those things.
However, the post you linked features a survey that was reposted in quite a few different places. I wouldn’t necessarily consider people who filled it out to be “submitters to the EA Forum.” (For example, some of them seem to detest the EA movement in general, such that I hope they don’t spend much time here for their own sake.) That said, it’s impossible to tell for sure.
If the New York Times were to run a similar survey, I’d guess that many respondents would express similar views. But I don’t think that would say much, if anything, about the community of people who regularly read the Times. I expect that people in the EA community overwhelmingly support racial equality and abhor white supremacy.
(Additional context: 75% of EA Survey respondents are on the political left or center-left; roughly 3% are right or center-right. That seems to make the community more politically left-leaning than the Yale student body, though the comparison is inexact.)