Ancestors

Written by David Gerard on 2025-02-03 at 00:51

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

https://awful.systems/post/3436005

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Toot

Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 01:19

Kelsey Piper continues to bluecheck:

Scott Alexander was accused of being secretly a right-wing racist and hiding it to avoid getting cancelled, and I think a bunch of his followers believed it, and now they’re shocked and hurt that he’s actually the sincere center left guy he said he was the whole time.

(Via.)

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Descendants

Written by Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 12:49

really enjoying (?) the implication that anything less than extreme genocidal resentment is considered left of centre these days

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Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-02-03 at 13:19

Anybody can be left of center if the overton window shifts enough far right. He doesnt want to sterilize all minorities so clearly he is an ally.

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Written by YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 00:19

Also, I don’t know that people are particularly concerned about the left/right spectrum as much as the explicitly racist and tacitly authoritarian sentiments. Like, if your vision of “the left” includes Scott, AOC, and Karl Marx then you have basically defined the left/right spectrum to be meaningless.

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Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 00:54

Her talk of people being “desperate” for Scoot to be racist suggests a dismally gamified view of life. I mean, he’s a racist. However I feel about that, it doesn’t change the basic fact. She’s playing for a weird gotcha of some kind that could only ever make sense if you (a) regard writing as point-scoring and also (b) accept Richard Lynn-ism as science.

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Written by maol@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 10:22

A sincere centre left guy who is also blazingly furious at feminists for no reason.

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Written by maol@awful.systems on 2025-02-04 at 10:29

The use of the word sincere here bothers me.

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