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Molyneux most definitely is an extremist, some choice quotes from the SPLC:

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

It's got nothing to do with echo chambers. The response to his memo might have been a little overblown, but anyone who associates with someone like Molyneux makes quite clear where they stand.

>makes me wonder if that's the sort of people HN is attracting?

I'm not sure about HN, but there's a pretty large subculture of hyper-reactionary stuff in tech around Curtis Yarvin, Thiel, and so on that's been seeping into mainstream communities for ages.

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Molyneux being an extremist does not mean that Danmore must necessarily be an extremist. Contrary to what many people seem to believe, you can appear on a talk show with someone you disagree strongly with, or be interviewed by the same.

And, personally, if I was being lambasted in the mainstream media, I'd be taking whatever opportunities I could to put my side of the story out there, without looking too hard into who was offering a helping hand. I think that's true of just about everyone.

If we're honest, a lot of that is less extreme than a lot of what happens on the "crazy", "woke", "left" these days that we're all kinda accepting and in a lot of cases promoting.

The difference is one is "kinda" accepted and promoted under the guise of "justice", whilst the other is shunned as "extremist" and "far right".

This is not "less extreme" than what you're referencing:

“You cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people…these [non-white] immigrants are going to fail...and they're not just going to fail a little, they are going to fail hard…they're not staying on welfare because they’re lazy...they’re doing what is economically the best option for them...you are importing a gene set that is incompatible with success in a free-market economy.”

I don't understand your point? I can quote left-leaning racists for you too if you like?

The whole point is those white nationalist beliefs are par for the course within that demographic.

You're making generalizations about other groups with no substantive data.

Yes, you _may_ be able to find a left-leaning racist spouting absurdities like this, but it isn't indicative of that group as a whole...the far-right, white nationalist demographic has these vile beliefs as a foundation of their platform.

As if Southern Poverty Law Center was an objective reference.

They're literally direct quotes. Nice try though.

They are direct quotes with citations...

The claims are sourced. You're welcome to present evidence to the contrary.

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