Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this, and happy 4th July in advance.)
This self-own from the comments is amazing:
This is a racist dog-whistle which attacks ESL housekeepers; this sort of memeās frustratingly common on the West Coast.
Itās also fascinating because I thought the OP was pretty clear that thereās a difference between decision theory and ādesirable dispositionsā which I interpret as covering the kind of counterfactual preferences indicated here. Actually thereās an even more fundamental issue with this as a decision theory problem which is that it misidentifies who is actually making a decision. Changing the applicantās decision theory (while leaving their preference for thievery intact) doesnāt matter to the person actually deciding here.
Donāt get me wrong, itās also a wildly racist example to put forward, itās just also a bad example and where there is an argument itās addressed in the OP.