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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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we're up to 51 replies to the post, which has 198 karma points. I guess it's hard to distinguish between those that are in support of the racist, in support of a fellow rationalist, or some other reason.
And nowhere does anyone actually say (even in an overly cautious carefully qualified way) "Have you considered not being a racist?". I did see a few more comments very gently suggesting that it might be bad for an organization's reputation to be associated with Richard, but even those were in the typical lesswrong style of coddling racists.
habryka did get -53 agreement karma (but still +13 overall karma) for suggesting that Resolution obviously didn't really find Richard's views "actually reprehensible" (and was instead engaging in image management or shallow tribal politics or something like that). So at least lesswrongers are theoretically capable of recognizing that people that find racism reprehensible exist and aren't purely faking it out of political alignment. But that is the best I can say about them.
Edit: There is finally one commenter calling the twitter feed that Richard retweeted "distasteful" in the gentlest most indirect terms possible. And they are very careful to avoid insinuating that maybe Richard shares those "distasteful" viewpoints. Why can't they ever just call racist shitheads racist shitheads?