Not to be rude, but what context do you recommend would help for interpreting the statement, “I like both basic income guarantees and eugenics,” or describing requiring poor people to be sterilized to receive basic income as “probably better than what we have right now?” Because those seem fairly clear.
I think that a lot of these comments are subtle is what makes them so concerning. If I ran a cooking blog where I talked about cooking 95% of the time, and 5% of the time talked about eugenics, the cooking community would be justified in being deeply concerned about associating with me. What’s concerning is precisely that a large portion of our community finds a blog that unflinchingly endorses something like eugenics compelling. Analysis is never without values, and SSC has been explicit in its values at many points, as cited above.
Do you find it frightening that in defending the blog, people who associate with a community that wants the world to be better openly threatened journalists? Or that we overlap with a community that has endorsed neo-Nazi slogans like the 14 words?
I’m not advocating for censoring anyone. I’m interested in complicity with racism in the EA community.