“-insinuating that various longtermists hold white supremacists views”
Give me one example of this. I have always explicitly maintained, along with Mitchell and Chaudhury, the following:
“Whiteness is remarkable in its ability to render itself invisible to those who possess and benefit from it. Many, if not most, of the (often liberal humanitarian) authors of ‘end of the world’ discourses seem unaware of its integral influence on their thinking, and would almost certainly be horrified at the thought of their work entrenching racialized injustices. We are not suggesting that these authors espouse explicit, intentional and/or extreme racist ideals, on which much public discussion by white people of racism tends to focus.7 Nor do we wish to homogenize or present as equivalent all of the viewpoints discussed in this paper, which display a range of expressions of whiteness and levels of awareness thereof.”
I have never once said “X is a white supremacist” or “X is a racist.” Not once. EA Forum moderators: ask people to support their wild accusations or delete these comments. Thanks.
You are defending yourself against something I did not accuse you of.
I claimed that what you do is insinuation. This indeed implies precisely what you have just claimed: that you never directly write “X is a white supremacist” or “X is a racist”.
You constantly retreat to the alleged fact that you have never said these things explicitly, which is why I was careful with my words.
It’s not a “wild accusation”, it’s a reasonable characterization of very many tweets and articles of yours about figures in longtermism and EA. Have a nice day.
“-insinuating that various longtermists hold white supremacists views”
Give me one example of this. I have always explicitly maintained, along with Mitchell and Chaudhury, the following:
“Whiteness is remarkable in its ability to render itself invisible to those who possess and benefit from it. Many, if not most, of the (often liberal humanitarian) authors of ‘end of the world’ discourses seem unaware of its integral influence on their thinking, and would almost certainly be horrified at the thought of their work entrenching racialized injustices. We are not suggesting that these authors espouse explicit, intentional and/or extreme racist ideals, on which much public discussion by white people of racism tends to focus.7 Nor do we wish to homogenize or present as equivalent all of the viewpoints discussed in this paper, which display a range of expressions of whiteness and levels of awareness thereof.”
I have never once said “X is a white supremacist” or “X is a racist.” Not once. EA Forum moderators: ask people to support their wild accusations or delete these comments. Thanks.
You are defending yourself against something I did not accuse you of.
I claimed that what you do is insinuation. This indeed implies precisely what you have just claimed: that you never directly write “X is a white supremacist” or “X is a racist”.
You constantly retreat to the alleged fact that you have never said these things explicitly, which is why I was careful with my words.
It’s not a “wild accusation”, it’s a reasonable characterization of very many tweets and articles of yours about figures in longtermism and EA. Have a nice day.