Information that I Didn’t Like Changed My Life

by David Sims

AN ANTI-WHITE LEFTIST who goes by the name of “NoSafeSpace” recently wrote:

But respect, fight the good fight. If you can convert a hardcore neo-Nazi then praise be to you. But for the most part they didn’t arrive at their positions through reason, so it’s a Herculean task to reason them out of their positions. Sometimes it’s just not worth the time.

To which I responded: Oh yes. I did arrive at my position through reason. I was a leftist when 1995 began. But, that year, I entered into a debate with some “racists” from the National Alliance in one of the chat rooms of the old MSN intranet. I went in sure that I’d win. But I lost — very decisively.

The debate was on the cause, the magnitude, and the significance of racial differences. The racists used statistics from sources having a reputability that neither of us disputed, and they won their case. I use those same stats today. They’re mostly from US government sources.

Having been a leftist, I’m familiar with the way leftists lie to themselves and how they are blind to their epistemological lapses — how they project these faults onto others as a defensive stratagem, and with their habit of imputing sinister motives where there are none.

When I was in school, I majored in physics and in astronomy, so I had some scientific training. You learn not to take it personally when one of your hypotheses is shot down by your peers. But I experienced some cognitive dissonance when those racists won our debate.

I had supposed that someone, somewhere, at some time or other, must have fact-checked my earlier leftist beliefs. But, as it turned out, nobody had. They were all the result of the “liberal” echo chamber, reinforced by self-referencing over years of time.

I’d been ignoring crime statistics, STD statistics, and many other signs of a general Black savagery, vulgarity, and immorality (with some noble exceptions, but not many) as being “tainted” information, when, in fact, it was perfectly true information that I simply didn’t like.

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