The implication is that this is not currently the case. If you believe that, then you are quite misinformed,
Not so long ago, black people in the US were legally assaulted if they drank from certain water fountains, sat in certain bus seats. They were taxed but not allowed to attend many tax-supported facilities including schools and universities. A black man walking with a white woman on a public street risked death from lynching. White’s who spoke in favor of blacks were also at risk and had crosses burned on their lawns to illustrate the threat.
For all intents and purposes, everything in my previous paragraph is either non-existent or attenuated by well more than a factor of 100 in the current united states.
WHO is being pedantic arguing over a compact expression of this change which is a tangential point to another point the post was primarily about? And WHY do so many other lesswrongers jump on that particular pedantic bandwagon?
The mindkiller isn’t an excuse to jump on a bandwagon, it is something that the rational might wish to practicing resisting.
Not so long ago, black people in the US were legally assaulted if they drank from certain water fountains, sat in certain bus seats. They were taxed but not allowed to attend many tax-supported facilities including schools and universities. A black man walking with a white woman on a public street risked death from lynching. White’s who spoke in favor of blacks were also at risk and had crosses burned on their lawns to illustrate the threat.
For all intents and purposes, everything in my previous paragraph is either non-existent or attenuated by well more than a factor of 100 in the current united states.
WHO is being pedantic arguing over a compact expression of this change which is a tangential point to another point the post was primarily about? And WHY do so many other lesswrongers jump on that particular pedantic bandwagon?
The mindkiller isn’t an excuse to jump on a bandwagon, it is something that the rational might wish to practicing resisting.