Human Biodiversity (Part 4: Astral Codex Ten)

I think this is a really bad article. So bad that I can't see it not being written with ulterior motives.

1. Too many things are taken out of context, like "the feminists are literally voldemort" quote.

2. Too many things are paraphrased in dishonest and ridiculously over the top ways. Like saying Harris has "longstanding plans to sterilize people of color", before a quote that just says she wants to give birth control to people in Haiti.

3. Offering negative infinity charity in every single area. In the HBD email, Scott says he thinks neoreactionaries create endless streams of garbage, but with some tiny nuggets of gold. And that he can take the nuggets of gold and just tune out the rest. The article then goes on to list everything bad about neoreactionaries as if Scott's email is evidence he endorses all of neoreaction? What?

4. Overall no clear direct argument. The article spends half its word justifying the connection between Scott and EA, which I don't think anyone would deny. Then puts up the email, instantly infers the worst possible intent being it with little justification. Then lists every single racist person scott has ever said anything even lighly good about. 

Overall, the article updates me in the direction of thinking scott is less racist and less sympethetic to neoreactionary thinking. The article has clearly put in effort, and the author is clearly trying their very best to pain Scott in a bad light, and Scott has literally 20 years of constant blogging put out openly on the internet. But the article is not very convincing. 

The above link posted is a lengthy and relatively well-sourced, if biased, post about Scott Alexander's writing related to human biodiversity (HBD). The author is very clearly opposed to HBD. I think it is a decent read if you want to understand that position.