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Yassine Meskhout, the author of the linked article about being a public defender is:
* NOT the owner of the "LessWrong" blog (the linked blog which republished this article),
* and also NOT the owner of the original blog ( jessesingal.substack.com/p/my-clients-the-liars ) that first published this article in December 2023.
It's a bit hard to take complaints about the article authors blog seriously when it's not clear the article author has a blog as such.
https://ymeskhout.substack.com/p/obfuscating-euphemisms-in-t...
Sure, there is the argument against pointless euphamism, but that's not the same thing as "anti-woke" or alt-right.
They literally work with what is wrong with our society. The author of the article writes himself there is little joy in his work. I think taking a moment to understand their frustrations might give insight into what we can’t do as a society, like mass incarceration, and the consequences thereof. Their frustrations should be understood and read so we know the price of our rights and even sometimes calibrate our responses or find new solutions. As an engineer I get pissed off if a colleague who made a huge blunder tries to pass it as a no biggie that unluckily got its way into production. I can’t imagine working with the bottom of the bottom of our society.
Seriously cannot at all fathom where you've come to the conclusion this is "run of the mill alt-right / 'anti-woke' propaganda". The article presents an uncomfortable, genuine, reality you are likely completely unaware of, irrespective of whether you think it unkind, which makes it meaningful. The only thing is to discount is your want to be triggered by it.
> it makes me wonder why they want to invest so much of their time and effort in publishing things that are unkind, superficial, and not contributing anything meaningful.
Nearly all of the time, money. The outrage machine pays. Looks like OP's associated with Singal, who's the king of stoking various social panics to get eyeballs on his work. Same as the Miles-Cheong playbook. It's the intellectual equivalent of churning out "<X> reacts to <Y>!" videos on YouTube for ad revenue.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was assuming the author is publishing this stuff because he just likes sharing his opinions with the world. If there are more concrete incentives that's even worse.
And then of course it's concerning that so many people are willing to throw that much money at wannabe pudits whose insights often boil down to "trans people are scary and bad." (That's still the focus of Linehan's newsletter, apparently! In all these years he's never come up with anything else to say!)
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