Look at the word choice by Rick here. The picture created most vividly is not one of bad ideas, but *low status people*. The favored motifs of anti-racism are resentful of classes and characters, not ideas or actions. Anti-racist ideology legitimizes and reinforces this hate.https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1056590332001968128 …
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As Ryan Faulk says, people don't typically hate ideas; We experience dislike directed at "proper nouns" -- actual people or groups who serve as the enemy. The higher level ideas are often just a language-level pretext to communicate our shared identification against this enemy.
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The effect of anti-racist ideology is to dehumanize low-status targets and strip them of the protections of normal discourse, or even law. Threads against "Nazis" immediately devolve into mocking the fat, the unattractive, the poor, and delighting in denying them civil rights.
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