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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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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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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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