News to me that anything went on in that forum other than Photoshop Phridays.
> The Sneerclub demographic is primarily LessWrongers, former LessWrongers, and LessWrong-adjacents.
I am triggered now. Now I am triggered.
Broad enough that the Sneer Club itself, by the fact of sneering at LW, LW-adjacent.
I guess "better trivially-true than significantly-false" is the new "better dead than red."
Yeah, there are quite a few people here (myself included) who left the LW-sphere after realizing how batshit insane it was, I think that's a fair assessment.
Gotchya. I mean, I don't know the demographics of the people who comment here these days, so sure. But as part of the badphil minority, I suppose, you know, a bit ew.
I suspect most of the audience here is not hostile to women, so much
as ambivalent to women
I really like how they don’t even consider the possibility that part
of “the audience here” might simply be women. Just goes to show
how much of a sausage-fest r/SCC can be.
That's a vibe you get *constantly* in that forum. It's not just an edgy discussion about issues of gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. but specifically one where people in minority categories on each of those dimensions are assumed to be some kind of abstract concept you can only talk about vaguely in the third person. No one can ever really know what it's like to be a woman or an African American or a transgender person, so all we have is logic (and ingrained, unexamined prejudices) to reason it out ourselves.
But at least according to the demographic data in the blog's reader surveys, they're making a pretty safe assumption about their audience. How high can your expectations really be when you have a discussion about race and gender with a bunch of white men? It's like the proverbial all-male task force on abortion - in fact sometimes it is exactly that.
No, but constantly circle-jerking around your shared identity (in r\/SCC's case, having "high IQ" and being "apolitical") is kinda the definition of identity politics.
So basically, "no u."
Disappointing.
> it’s a constant fucking ~~debate~~ **circlejerk** over the smallest minutae over there.
FTFY
Also, I looked for examples of that kind of "debate" in your post history but so far it's just you getting mad at random people. So I'm gonna go with "you're full of shit."
>Here though? This is just one big ol hug box for leftists who think racism/sexism is the worst evil in existence
No, dumbass. I don't think racism/sexism is the worst evil in existence, because I'm not the one who needs to constantly make "Top 10 rankings of the worst evils in existence." You are.
> protip; you don’t know evil, and need to get out more
Protip: you're probably not twelve years old, so you have the capacity to consider your life in more subtle terms than "muh good versus evil." This isn't a fucking cartoon.
That's the thing though. Disagreeing on "minutiae" doesn't make it not-a-circlejerk if people agree on everything else (i.e., in SCC's case, HBD bullshit, muh freeze peach, and the evil essjaydabbleyouz).
I suspect the rationalist community is especially vulnerable to
infection narratives because its enemies must, by definition, be
irrational or crazy or religious (again, seriously, see below) or,
worse, just plain evil. Couple this with certain historical realities
and I think you get a recipe for a pervasive suspicion/mistrust/paranoia
when it comes to women.
I had too much wine last night and wanted to see how pissed off I
could get them. They really didn’t like my posts, which I consider a
win. I thought I’d get a few comments here and there, but that thread
exploded. They really are the easiest people to piss off in the world.
That was too much fun. I should probably be more mature in the future
though. I think I’m banned now.
Trolling like this is stupid and you should feel bad.
SSC says plenty of stupid shit on its own without being provoked, and antics like this only give them ammo to call things fAlSe fLaGs when they make the community look bad.
Material is abundant organically, you’re only helping them by artificially creating it.
I think you are right. They are having an emergency session over there to discuss my actions and conspiracy theories are flying around. I feel really bad now.
Bonus! This thread also enjoys some sneerclub mythos. Did you know we are the starspawn of Something Awful? Spooky if true.
I really like how they don’t even consider the possibility that part of “the audience here” might simply be women. Just goes to show how much of a sausage-fest r/SCC can be.
I hate identity politics and tribal politics, you know, like a true grey tribesman.
Alternative sneer: It’s Pit-Pat! Globochem’s new magical, pan-sexual, non-threatening spokesthing!
The movie made for this kind of human calculator, Solo, that flopped. The Last Jedi soaked up money like a bad cocaine habit.
Yeah, we get it, you’re a piece of shit.
and everyone else who isn’t them
I had too much wine last night and wanted to see how pissed off I could get them. They really didn’t like my posts, which I consider a win. I thought I’d get a few comments here and there, but that thread exploded. They really are the easiest people to piss off in the world. That was too much fun. I should probably be more mature in the future though. I think I’m banned now.
They are not hostile to women, but they do deny them their essence.