Protesilaos aka “Prot” is a well-known member of the Emacs community, being the author of several popular packages. I unfortunately just learned about an anti-feminist rant he posted to his website 5 days ago (Sep 5). I don’t want to link it, but it is easily found if you desire.

His philosophy just sucks, he’s not as smart as he thinks he is, he’s stuck arguing with himself over his own abstractions

In short, he equates feminism with individualism in order to “prove” that feminism and socialism don’t mix (and he doesn’t like socialism anyway)

shut the fuck up Prot

    • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      For example https://protesilaos.com/books/2020-09-30-ethos-dialectic/

      The Dialectician’s Ethos

      2020-09-30

      Dialectic is an inter-personal experience: a rigorous dialogical process where parties to an argument exchange views in pursuit of the common objective of approximating the truth. Socrates used the dialectical method in this exact way: a certain kind of targeted conversation.

      To effectively and consistently partake in dialectic, one must have developed several virtues.

      They must be honest. To stand by their arguments, recognise any possible mistake of theirs, not misrepresent the other side’s positions, not employ rhetorical tricks, not assume malevolence in the opposing side’s propositions or act in bad faith, and the like.

      You can see how he embodies this honesty in practice /s