necroing thread to attach this part. i guess this is now a "why i see scott primarily as a neoreactionary ideologue with a progressive aesthetic" megathread bsky.app/profile/mutu...
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my "reading scott's leaked emails closely" thread bsky.app/profile/segy...
aug 30, 2025, 6:57 pm • 38 1 • view
rationalwiki archive in case it changes or goes away later. archive.is/202506121945...
aug 30, 2025, 7:08 pm • 25 0 • view
"jewish racial superiority" blog posts one: slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/t... two: slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/29/f... three: slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/30/h... four: www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-smi...
aug 30, 2025, 7:08 pm • 28 0 • view
1) yes, i do think that he is into eugenics specifically because he has a narrative that flatters him specifically. in another post about IQ he notes how obviously inadequate he was as a child compared to his brother, a musical prodigy. i imagine he's thought about his own IQ a lot.
aug 30, 2025, 7:08 pm • 40 1 • view
2) noah smith fucking bodies him in the set of posts that "four" is part of, which is amazing. what the fuck has gone wrong with noah
aug 30, 2025, 7:08 pm • 37 1 • view
i guess for completeness: the full Nathan Robinson article the upthread screenshot is taken from. bsky.app/profile/miss...
aug 30, 2025, 7:16 pm • 24 0 • view
i mixed up my tabs. the above lisbeth salander piece is also quite good tho bsky.app/profile/miss...
aug 30, 2025, 7:23 pm • 22 1 • view
a much more detailed accounting than mine bsky.app/profile/muir...
aug 30, 2025, 9:03 pm • 31 2 • view
"I am deliberately promoting most ideas from the neoreactionary movement. i think they should avoid the words 'feudalism' and 'cathedral' for marketing purposes, and I also disagree with them neoreactionaries about gender, but I like everything else they say and am deliberately marketing for it"
aug 31, 2025, 5:17 am • 35 4 • view
i honestly cannot figure out any way in which that is an unfaithful reading of the text
aug 31, 2025, 5:17 am • 19 0 • view
“Becoming a Reactionary” as if “I like Reactionary ideas and hope to spread them” is a different thing than “becoming a Reactionary”
aug 31, 2025, 5:19 am • 9 0 • view
'I think reactionaries are wrong about [everything specific they believe], but I want to spread their thought because they oppose the people whose thinking is probably correct but annoys me.'
aug 31, 2025, 5:41 am • 2 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
this piece was excellent, thanks for sharing.
aug 30, 2025, 10:43 pm • 1 0 • view
This is an article by Lisbeth Salander analyzing Alexander's style of written argument, not the Current Affairs piece, which is this:
aug 30, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I used to be into SSC in high school from posts like Toxoplasma and Categories Made for Man, which I still think are fantastically lucid. And then I read these race science IQ posts and had a huge cognitive dissonance. Still not sure how someone so lucid on some topics could be so foggy on others
aug 31, 2025, 7:20 am • 4 0 • view
some topics are about his identity and insecurities, and others aren't, imho. but yeah it's a massive cognitive blind spot. earlier post on that one: bsky.app/profile/segy...
aug 31, 2025, 7:22 am • 3 0 • view
How has rationalwiki avoided going off summer ideological deep end for so long?
aug 30, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Not everyone in movement atheism or skepticism is racist. Most New Atheists became conventional liberals.
aug 30, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
basically people who identified as any of those things have tended to churn out as movements become more toxic
aug 30, 2025, 11:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, and moreover, the actionable political issues New Atheists cared about in the 2000s - gay marriage, not teaching creationism at school, denormalization of televangelists and megachurch leaders - were all achieved. Rick Warren administering the oath of office to Obama was a swan song.
aug 31, 2025, 12:04 am • 4 0 • view
In 2005, secular Americans and US watchers saw constant berating of everyone who failed to perform Christianity to Bush's standards (Amy Sullivan was horrible). By Elevatorgate in 2011, that was long gone, and gay marriage advocates were already seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
aug 31, 2025, 12:06 am • 3 0 • view
Posting this just in case you haven't seen it, I think it's a pretty good analysis of Alexander's rhetorical strategies.
aug 30, 2025, 7:07 pm • 8 0 • view
def belongs in the thread in its entirety, thx
aug 30, 2025, 7:17 pm • 2 0 • view
I wonder how many people who read him like reading those long winded cooking blogs before you get to the recipe. There’s a small recipe of something (might not be tasty) inside a massive amount of tangentially related nonsense.
aug 30, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
the digressions are kind of the point, they're all interesting things when he's not being too defensive. and he can hide the main point anywhere in there
aug 30, 2025, 7:35 pm • 3 0 • view
I mean this is the pretty straightforward implication of the leaked emails + that whole cohort's obsession with Leo Strauss right?
aug 30, 2025, 6:46 pm • 3 0 • view
yes. i mostly like aggregating examples because it demonstrates that it's a sort of systemic problem and not a slant he sometimes injects, tbh. it is absolutely pervasive in his writing
aug 30, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 0 • view