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Revisiting Scott's tackling of the famous theodicy "if censorship by the left is real how come right-wingers can't ever seem to shut the fuck up?" (https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-popular-and-silenced/)
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 “Censored” awkwardly suggests government involvement, which nobody is claiming.

This is a fun sentence after the president has announced today that he will create a commission to remove “toxic propaganda, ideological poison” from school curriculum.

"Why ideas can be both silenced and official state ideology"
Now that 1619 has been cancelled, I expect the entire ineffectual dork web to have Ida Bae Wells on their podcasts. Just like I expect them to speak up about Barr's illiberal theocratic views...
> the president has announced today that he will create a commission to remove "toxic propaganda, ideological poison" from school curriculum. So he's going to create a political correctness commission for public education? I'm sure the irony isn't lost on conservatives at all.

“it’s actually good when the president orders that anyone who thinks slavery happened be murdered in the street, because it protects free speech” - scott whoever, high iq thinker

whattt, that doesn't sound like something he would say.
Just the result he supports.
just wait

I read a little bit, and he completely lost me shortly after mentioning this Current Affairs article. The topic of this post is whether the huge audiences and massive popularity of right wing pundits undercuts their cries of silencing and censorship, and he quotes Current Affairs rattling off a whole litany of right wing celebs, noting the relative dearth of their left wing counterparts, and making exactly the point he’s trying to dispute.

Then, in response, he says that an idea having a lot of famous advocates doesn’t mean it’s popular or well-liked? What does that have to do with whether the idea is being silenced or not? Am I missing something? I wanted to call this “slick” or a “sleight of hand”, but it honestly seems more like a scaly strong-armed robbery at gunpoint!

If his audience’s self-reported IQ scores really are accurate, they’re the strongest evidence against the meaningfulness of IQ as a metric anyone could ever hope for.

Yeah, it seems to me he is very opportunistically switching between describing ideas as "taboo," "unpopular," "controversial," "marginalized," "unorthodox," (and the like) while hoping the reader fully glosses over the differences in meaning between these terms.
I am really skeptical that this many people took actual IQ tests. Actual tests are long, cumbersome and are usually not administered without a good reason, like if you're a problem child or want to join the French Foreign Legion lol
they were actually administered to my whole class in 3rd grade, probably to figure out which kids needed to go to the AIG (Academically Intellectually Gifted) classes and which kids needed remedial classes but ydah i bet a lot of those people are ballparking, and the grass is probably pretty green in their ballparks
yeah, my school district in the US IQ tested everyone in the 2nd/3rd grade. it was pretty fucked in hindsight. imagine being shunted into the “slow track” for your entire k-12 education because you had to pee really bad during a long test when you were like 9
does it really work as stupid as that? do your grades count for nothing?
yes and no. they're both school, you get an equivalent diploma at the end, you eat lunch together, same idea. but if you're shunted into a "gifted track" early, you get better teachers, those classes have better opportunities, the school gives them more funding, etc, which means you're more likely to do better in school over the long run. speaking anecdotally; I remember from my high school that "slow track" classes (non-honors or AP) were visited by Army recruiters and "gifted track" classes (AP, IB, some honors) were visited by college admissions programs. it's that kind of thing. it's possible for someone shunted into the "slow track" to make their way into better classes, but it usually doesn't happen without *exceptional* academic performance or bothersome parents. and it's hard to perform exceptionally when your class is 34 students and your teacher's overworked and your textbook's falling apart, and it's hard to get your parents to bother the administration when they have two jobs. plus, you're a literal child, and many parents don't know that the administration will cave if you badger them enough.
Obviously the the SSC environment incentivizes honest self-reporting of IQ scores.
Narcissism is more common than claimed IQ scores, and narcissists lie about IQs... now if only there was some kind of formula that one could use on probabilities like this... Maybe some monk came up with something a few centuries ago.

I vaguely remember this post and was debating whether I’d care to go through it again. After a bit I did open it and lasted until the second paragraph and the phrase “careful and important thinkers like Eric Weinstein”.

Yes. I assumed that must be joke, and then read a bit further and apparently not. Isn’t the fundamental issue to do with various sorts of ‘gatekeepers’, whether to recognition and respect, or to particular platforms? “I’ve got loads of friends, but I want that popular kid there, and that really smart kid there to be my friends, and it’s NOT FAIR if they aren’t.”

I thought some of the analysis was interesting, but I couldn’t get past the part where he took Bari Weiss’s stories of how hard it is to be an IDW thinker at face value. She’s someone who’s routinely tried to get people fired or deplatformed for criticizing Israel.

so what? one can try to get Nazis " fired or deplatformed " while saying it's hard to be an antifascist activist. I don't understand your point.
Wait are you here to defend Scotty’s honor on a sub *specifically* dedicated to mocking the ‘rationalism’ of him and his ilk? You see the problem here, right? Doesn’t your superior, rational, Bayesian inference thought process tell you that this is a futile endeavor?
I'm not doing any kind of bayesian inference, or defending internet "rationalism". I'm merely interested in the principle of charity. I also have a problem with the lazy antizionism of the American left
I feel like that comment was about [someone being a hypocrite](https://theintercept.com/2017/08/31/nyts-newest-op-ed-hire-bari-weiss-embodies-its-worst-failings-and-its-lack-of-viewpoint-diversity/) more than antizionism. [Like this tweet cannot be from some principled defender of liberal values or whatever](https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1306662832805613569?s=20) Also, this is a mockery sub, I feel like “charity” is not a particular priority.
but trying to get nazis deplatformed is objectively good, while trying to get people that stand against war crimes deplatformed is objectively bad
IDW =/= antifascist
I wasn't implying that. but wanting to get people fired while not wanting to get fired oneself isn't convincing of anything.

I’m definitely having a hard time these days assuring right-wingers that their insane conspiracies about being censored aren’t real instead of just mocking them and telling them how much I’m going to enjoy making their views illegal.

booo not worth revisiting