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The side with the most browns is against civilization don't you know

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I posted that I stand with Israel because I recognize that its enemies are the enemies of civilization.

Someone replied asking in an obviously hostile way how I define "enemies of civilization", and that was followed up with the quoted sarcasm: "The side with the most browns is against civilization, don't you know."

Of course I was supposed to respond to this by scuttling away from my previous position in terror lest I be labeled a raaaacist.

This is a kind of bullying that makes me want to respond "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on!" It's never honest, it's never constructive.

So fuck you. The enemies of civilization are the side with the lower average IQ and higher average time preference. It's the side that demonstrates these traits by publishing the fewest books per capita and, oh look, rewarding itself with orgies ofremoved and murder and literally dancing in the blood of its enemies.

And yes, it's generally the side with the most browns. I am ornery about speaking the truth and I am going to say that in public, and fuck you again for trying to jerk me around with discourse taboos.

Of course anyone who isn't a moron would understand that the most-browns part isn't causal, it's accidental. The low-average-IQ part is what's essential - stupid savages behave like stupid savages because they have short time horizons and poor impulse control.

It isn't an essential truth that brown people have to be stupid savages; we can observe self-selected populations of them that aren't, usually when they emigrate out of their origin culture to live among white people or Northeast Asians. But even the emigration isn't strictly necessary; high-caste Indians manage to be pretty brown and pretty bright on average at the same time.

The racist is not the person who understands all these things. The racist is the person who jumps straight to "you must despise brown people" as the only possible reason anyone would stand with Israel.

For context, Eric S. Raymond is the author of the book The Cathedral and the Bazaar, also famous for saying advocacy groups for women in tech exist to entrap men with false SA allegation.

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, part of the reason I fell out of the idea of a career in tech is that most of these guys end up being shitheads. Just generally too disillusioning of an environment considering i was up to my eyes in disillusionment at that point.

    Best case scenario you get someone fairly benign like Torvalds, worst case scenario you get the intended demographic for Moldbug.