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This doesn't really track with respect to Scott Alexander though? He hasn't ever been a progressive, so how is he a traitor?





In the schism the other person replying to you is talking about, Scott didn’t go fully into the far left progressive ideology when it happened so therefore he’s a traitor since he should “know better”.

One tenant of the progressive thinking is if you know their argument then you must agree with them because they’re “right”. So you’re either ignorant or evil - there’s no room for smart people that just think they’re wrong. They know Scott isn’t ignorant so therefore he must be evil.

My other comment got flag killed because I mentioned the core group I think is responsible for this kind of thinking within that community.


They also flag killed my root level reply to you for this thread, it's an insufferable group.



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