Speaking only for myself, I consider it a minor red flag, in the sense of “not only is this guy in my outgroup, but even the outgroup thinks that he is weird”.
I am aware that this kinda goes against the conservation of expected evidence, in that if my outgroup said “this guy is perfectly legit”, it probably wouldn’t make a good impression on me. So why should it make a bad impression if they question whether he is legit?
I guess the answer is that even if I deeply disagree with the outgroup, there is still some positive correlation in our values; after all, we are all humans, we care about generally human things. I don’t care about the spiritual consequences of “teaching outside a lineage”, but I care about a more generalized version of “this guy draws his authority from being associated with X, but X say that from their perspective he is associated incorrectly”. I don’t care about X per se, but I care about using some kinds of status moves.
Speaking only for myself, I consider it a minor red flag, in the sense of “not only is this guy in my outgroup, but even the outgroup thinks that he is weird”.
I am aware that this kinda goes against the conservation of expected evidence, in that if my outgroup said “this guy is perfectly legit”, it probably wouldn’t make a good impression on me. So why should it make a bad impression if they question whether he is legit?
I guess the answer is that even if I deeply disagree with the outgroup, there is still some positive correlation in our values; after all, we are all humans, we care about generally human things. I don’t care about the spiritual consequences of “teaching outside a lineage”, but I care about a more generalized version of “this guy draws his authority from being associated with X, but X say that from their perspective he is associated incorrectly”. I don’t care about X per se, but I care about using some kinds of status moves.
(Sorry, this is mostly off topic.)