On the other hand, if you gesture towards disreputable ideas, but don’t state your position clearly or provide evidence, I’m liable to pattern-match you to rednecks.
Haha, I think you’re displaying some serious prejudice (in multiple directions) by thinking that I’m supposed to mind this so badly.
“Prejudice” may not be the mot juste. If I filled one pickup truck with rednecks, and another with members of my own family, I’m not sure you’d be able to tell the difference. Hell, a few people would probably have to go in both trucks.
It wasn’t so much that I expected you to be viscerally horrified by the association with low-SES rural Southern whites, as that being pattern-matched to rednecks has what I thought were obvious drawbacks. Just for one: this being Less Wrong, I’m pretty confident you don’t think zygotes have souls. No doubt there are many other, less obviously incongruent beliefs in the redneck belief cluster you wouldn’t remotely endorse.
Haha, I think you’re displaying some serious prejudice (in multiple directions) by thinking that I’m supposed to mind this so badly.
“Prejudice” may not be the mot juste. If I filled one pickup truck with rednecks, and another with members of my own family, I’m not sure you’d be able to tell the difference. Hell, a few people would probably have to go in both trucks.
It wasn’t so much that I expected you to be viscerally horrified by the association with low-SES rural Southern whites, as that being pattern-matched to rednecks has what I thought were obvious drawbacks. Just for one: this being Less Wrong, I’m pretty confident you don’t think zygotes have souls. No doubt there are many other, less obviously incongruent beliefs in the redneck belief cluster you wouldn’t remotely endorse.