I’m so glad I found this subreddit. I’ve been in tech a long time and as you all probably know Slate Star Codex and its like are super popular among techies. Not only have I had his articles thrown at me to show that SJWs are the “real” threat not Nazis, sexism in tech isn’t real, feminism is full of harpies that make normal men into MRAs, but I’ve dated Slate Star Codex readers. That was before I knew better. One of them got super into the whole Less Wrong cult to the point where I had to dump him for spending our rent budget on some kind of Effective Altruism weird boat club. He’s friends with Diana S. Fleischman and a bunch of the others and would always tell me about their evpsych relationship advice, which definitely was not good for us haha. Now as much as these folks talk about “leftists” being out of touch, to me as a young Republican woman (yeah…) from the South I thought they were all pretty creepy and out of touch. I never went to any of these things though I did read some of the blogs on his advice and I’ve hung out with some of the minor Less Wrong cultists.

As I started becoming more liberal I started becoming disgusted with that community and their tolerance of “lite” white supremacists like Gregory Cochran and Razib Khan (on Slate Star Codex’s side bar of links BTW) and other ideologies I now recognize as just the “dressed up” far right.

To my horror I find a lot of my colleagues in tech keep sharing Slate Star Codex posts as “so deep”, “insightful” and “wise” and then insisting that that community is “centrist” and “moderate.” Oh of course the share these posts in the context of things like “we have to tolerate the Nazis on our platform,” “what about the men who are victims of feminism,” “women aren’t in tech because they just aren’t interested,” “the real danger is not white supremacists, it’s SJWs.” The worst part is his language is so obtuse that people I know who don’t agree with his overall ideology frequently share it his posts. I actually created a twitter just to dig through the logorrhea and highlight what he’s really saying.

Either way kudos to y’all for highlighting that despite his protestations that his sub was for moderate open rational debate or whatever, /r/ slatestarcodex is a safe space for the likes of “maybe eugenics isn’t so bad.”

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