The "rationalist" community is so fascinating to me. On the surface it's about well, being rational, and about not allowing past biases to determine a course of action.

But in practice? In practice it's basically like creationism, where the conclusion is already decided and the work involves creating "logical" steps to justify the predetermined conclusion. The Rationalist community always makes me think of the John Galbraith quote:

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

In that it's easier for them to come up with an entire framework to justify bigotry, than to question if the bigotry needs to be there at all.