I dont think aella is in a cult and I can lowkey see how I could have bought into "gender is a social construct in a " nontrivial sense"/ socially imposed control system, and trans is thus delusion/deception like" nonsense if not for my hardline materialistic reductionism, skepticism of >
I kinda think the only reason we see it that way is because rat cults have weird stickers like the robot peril obsession, cults are very normal and typical of USA in a statistical sense
But yes, not having full immediate rejection of all paternalism and social conservatism in all their multitude of forms is both a moral failure and a cognitive failure and it is good she is recognizing it as such
People generally are and it’s good to act like they are, but it’s also very important to pay attention when everybody is shouting at you that your new friends are nazis
Basic common sense should let you differentiate between somebody a little heterodox/neurospicy and a bad-faith troll who’s winkingly espousing white Christian nationalism
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The problem with these "rationalists" is that they are not rationalist enough