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Scott Aaronson: "Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter"
Posting here rather than in a separate thread because I'm probably the only one who rememembers him from the old /r/sneerclub days, but he's an endlessly fascinating figure to me - his ability to view literally every possible scenario through the lens of "poor innocent little smol-bean Scott just wants to discuss things rationally, but is persecuted by his ontologically evil foes and their self-righteous dupes" - doesn't matter if it's feminists objecting to his older incel-y posts, Sneer Club dunking on him, cops arresting him for stealing from an airport store or leftists not being fans of the genocide he supports... He must always be the victim. His enemies must always be unreasonable and motivated by hatred of him, specifically.
What's he referring to when he says he's most famous for something about confronting radical feminists with his personal issues?
my god, you missed out on that?
here is way too much background reading!
just looked the guy up. He's handsome. He literally looks like Jerry Seinfeld (actually, he looks even more like Pablo Schreiber who played Nicky Sobotka in The Wire). What a god damned twat. (Not that being attractive makes any of his arguments any worse than they already are)
The title of the blog ("Shtetl-Optimized") refers to his belief that he would have been happier in a traditional shtetl where the kindly village elders would assign a wife for him.