“He characterises various long-termists as white supremacists on the flimsiest grounds imaginable.” I would encourage you to contact, well, quite literally anyone who studies “white supremacy.” This is precisely what I did BEFORE making the criticisms I made. Literally every single scholar I spoke with—including some at Princeton—were shocked and appalled by that quote from Nick Beckstead, as well as some other quotes I provided to them (in context, of course). The “white supremacy” claim is not mine, John. I’m just relaying what anyone who studies the issue will tell you, if you were sufficiently curious to contact the relevant scholars. Furthermore, I have never once called you a “white supremacist.” That is an egregious and defamatory lie that you should taken back immediately (or you should provide, for all to see, evidence to the contrary).
So funny to me that this has “-14” right now. What are people downvoting—scholarship? Me having consulted relevant experts? Does anyone want to explain?
a) This may have not been your intention, but even in context, the “white supremacy” claim in the e-book does read as your claim
b) I don’t think “poorer countries should transfer their wealth to richer countries” supports “a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources”. The richest countries include many countries that aren’t majority white such as Singapore, Qatar, UAE, Taiwan etc, so I don’t think the ‘overwhelmingly’ criterion is met here.
c) I’m of the opinion that people should refrain from ever using terms “in a legal scholarly sense”; instead they should either use the term in its usual sense or create a new term with a more specific definition.
That being said, I think a charitable reading of your e-book makes it seem like you are describing certain conclusions of longetermism as supporting ‘white supremacy’, and that you are using the term in a ‘legal scholarly sense’ and defining it as “a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources”. I don’t know if you have made this claim elsewhere but it did not seem like your e-book claims that “longtermists are white supremacists”.
“He characterises various long-termists as white supremacists on the flimsiest grounds imaginable.” I would encourage you to contact, well, quite literally anyone who studies “white supremacy.” This is precisely what I did BEFORE making the criticisms I made. Literally every single scholar I spoke with—including some at Princeton—were shocked and appalled by that quote from Nick Beckstead, as well as some other quotes I provided to them (in context, of course). The “white supremacy” claim is not mine, John. I’m just relaying what anyone who studies the issue will tell you, if you were sufficiently curious to contact the relevant scholars. Furthermore, I have never once called you a “white supremacist.” That is an egregious and defamatory lie that you should taken back immediately (or you should provide, for all to see, evidence to the contrary).
So funny to me that this has “-14” right now. What are people downvoting—scholarship? Me having consulted relevant experts? Does anyone want to explain?
I didn’t downvote this comment, but
a) This may have not been your intention, but even in context, the “white supremacy” claim in the e-book does read as your claim
b) I don’t think “poorer countries should transfer their wealth to richer countries” supports “a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources”. The richest countries include many countries that aren’t majority white such as Singapore, Qatar, UAE, Taiwan etc, so I don’t think the ‘overwhelmingly’ criterion is met here.
c) I’m of the opinion that people should refrain from ever using terms “in a legal scholarly sense”; instead they should either use the term in its usual sense or create a new term with a more specific definition.
That being said, I think a charitable reading of your e-book makes it seem like you are describing certain conclusions of longetermism as supporting ‘white supremacy’, and that you are using the term in a ‘legal scholarly sense’ and defining it as “a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources”. I don’t know if you have made this claim elsewhere but it did not seem like your e-book claims that “longtermists are white supremacists”.