Scott Alexander

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Alex Wattbot writes, quote, Now, you quoted Adams saying, The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.

Just get the fuck away.

If this was the intended point, does it really make sense that only the far left freaked out?

It's kind of important to mention this was within a hypothetical.

Suppose a survey reported that 26% of a population believes the phrase, it's okay to be blonde, is hate speech, and another 21% weren't sure if they agree with the statement or not.

Now suppose you were blonde.

Would you hang around that population?

Now go read the February 2022 Rasmussen Reports survey.

Please do better than this.

I don't want to have to gelman memory hole this.

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Scott writes, Many people had strong opinions on this, so I have to respond to it.

But first, I want to make it extra clear in capital letters, I am doing this in the comments post to respond to your comments, and not because I think it is the most important thing.

Certain people screenshotted the one paragraph of my 10,000-word essay that discussed this and posted it on Twitter in order to make it look like I was joining in some kind of chorus of liberals reducing Adams to his worst moment.

I posted what I thought was a no-nonsense, factual description of what happened, in order not to be accused of hiding it or covering it up.

It was the least important part of my essay.

I'm aware that writing about it at all opens me to attack from both sides, and I discuss it here only to respond to all of you who wanted to know my opinion on it.

Don't just screenshot it on Twitter and say, Look, Scott is still harping on the race thing.

That's all I'm asking.