Effective Altruists: look, we *tried* to invite nice people as well as the huge racists we knew were huge racists when we invited them. What? Exclude the racists? But they're so *interesting!* - eviltoast
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    5 months ago

    The net downvotes are the rest of the community frantically whispering “FFS Roko keep our racism on the down-low!”

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      5 months ago

      Roko is also violating their rules of assuming charitably and good faith about everything and going meta whenever possible. Because defending racists and racism is fine, as long as your tone is careful enough and you go up a layer of meta to avoid discussing the object level claims.