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kleinbl00  ·  2312 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Justin Murphy: On turning left into darkness

Holy fuck.

Flesch-Kinkaid of 16.4. 3700 words. 8:1 self-reference. The last Ta Nahisi Coates was 7.4 and 1:1, the last David Brooks was 9.7 and 6:1. even Slate Star Codex doesn't break 13. How did any of you even make it through this miasma?

    On the other hand, any culture of absolute kindness becomes a conservative system of unspoken violence insofar as painful truths get repressed and all participants become deformed over time. It is because I genuinely love my friends on the left that I am stepping up to publicly state, and seriously pursue the implications of, dozens of difficult questions we have basically had an unspoken pact to not speak about for perhaps decades now.

"We can't ignore difficult subjects just because they're difficult." How fucking hard is this? But he goes on for three more fucking paragraphs! Who is this choad? Oh shit! he doesn't go on for three more paragraphs, that's literally all he has to say. With like one example. Who the fuck is Nick Land? I guess he's a sci fi writer who likes eugenics. What the fuck was the point of all this?