The Nazification of America

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I’m not quite sure what you mean, because it sounds to me more like your example is one of outrage descending on the accuser. But at the risk of talking past each other, let me try to be more clear what I meant. I’m not questioning whether such things ever happen, but whether you can actually draw a line from them to saying this is why Nazis happen.

I’m sure right-wingers were happy to point to you as proof, but did they actually care about it? Because many don’t seem bothered by its absence; they can just as soon point to the flood of criminal immigrants, the discrimination against white men, the war on Christianity, the big conspiracy behind climate science, the epidemic of welfare abuse, etc. I don’t think they are credible sources on what they’re actually upset about, since it doesn’t seem to matter whether it is real. As I’ve said before, it’s fretting about giving fuel to liars who are just as happy to burn whole cloth.

And even when they do point to something real, it isn’t always what matters to them. Trump did not actually get elected because people genuinely care about public officials using private e-mail servers, something none cared about before or since. So obviously it’s a bad thing in itself when someone is incorrectly condemned for racism and sexism. But is that genuinely radicalizing people, instead of for instance just something nice to point to if you’re unhappy that racism and sexism get condemned?

What I can say for sure is that none of these articles seem to do the work to be sure, and I think that deserves to be treated as dubious because it fits into a long pattern. People keep pretending that bigotry itself can’t possibly be an important motivation, decent people must just be reacting to something else. And so the real fault must be anyone who isn’t opposing them exactly the right way, and you get the circular firing squad over what on earth that is, while they’re out hurting people.

If this one article’s summary is accurate, what happened to Dominique Moran is awful, and I will say again we should try to avoid that sort of thing for its own sake. But I also think it’s important not to make excuses for bigots, because trying to win them over with restrained opposition is not historically sound strategy.

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Following on @Lucy_Gothro1’s earlier post.

Every time an essay like this appears, Twitter jumps up and basically character assassinates the author. They can’t see their privilege, they’re out of touch, they’re white, and so on.

I do wonder how many people will be excommunicated before people realise they’re being exclusive, not inclusive, unsafe, not creating safe spaces.

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OTOH, that is in Quillette. “Intellectual Dark Web” darlings… I take anything they publish with a grain of salt. Possibly an entire shakerful.

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As in he really did do something awful and this is a chance for him to paint over it?

Certainly possible.

On the other hand, these stories keep happening. I remember when I was in university, a prof of mine attended a feminist conference. She said during a Q&A, a woman mentioned she was a lesbian as context for a question.

Thereafter people started giving their orientation before asking a question. Fair enough, that sort of pattern happens in conference Q&As all the time.

Except anyone who announced they were straight was booed.

Hating on anyone for how they’re born is not cool, and the left keeps going, “but after a lifetime of micro and macro aggression/unrealised privilege/history of colonialism etc” and sweeps it under the rug, unexamined.

But it still doesn’t justify hating on anyone for how they’re born.

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Nothing actually does, except in the minds of those who’re doing the hating.

If I could go back in time, it wouldn’t be to kill Hitler or stop the Titanic from hitting an iceberg or kill John Wilkes Booth prior to his visit to the Ford Theater. No, I want to find out who STARTED THIS SHIT. I also want the ability - fuck, if I can go back in time, I’ll take all I can get, lol - to get into people’s minds. Because I have no doubt this is prehistoric shit.

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What if someone with a superiority kink has already done that, for the worse…

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To what or which “that” are you referring? I just want information without actually interfering with the natural order, unless my actually being a figurative fly on the wall mucks things up. But we don’t actually know about that yet, do we? Anyhow…

Oh, do you mean like the ST:TOS episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever”?


Okay, 'nuff of that, let’s not derail the thread.

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I may have misunderstood “get into people’s minds”.

I imagined you acting as a sort of auxiliary conscience… and someone else acting as a sort of dark auxiliary conscience teaching “honor, purity, domination, kill, kill, kill!”

Anyway…

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Nope, just wanna know what and why they’re thinkin’ what they’d be thinking, or feeling, or somehow processing, in their brains. Strictly for my own personal curiosity.

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Literal concentration camps without even the fig leaf

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He is sooooo heterosexual.

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That helmet . . . with the hole at the end . . . I think it’s a statement.

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You should see him in his latex… Straight as Duterte.

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I hope this news helps lead to de-Nazification:

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P.S. Other reports suggest a false alarm.

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