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It's not enough to listen literally to what people say. You have to pick up the feelings behind it.
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In order to detect bigotry you have to understand that it's fundamentally irrational. If you expect it to make sense, you'll miss it.
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"Rationalist skeptics" are especially bad at noticing bigotry because they disdain emotional intelligence. They read language as logical propositions. They're blind to subtext, connotation, innuendo.
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This works with good-faith rational debate, but not with bigotry. "Reason" and "logic" are only reflections on the surface of bigotry. Rationalists look into the lake and think they're gazing at clouds.
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A corollary of this is you can't reason someone out of bigotry. Facts and arguments are not relevant. Any argument you come up with looks like "not an argument" to them, because their position—their emotional position—is not rooted in rationality to begin with.
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they have instrumental rationality. Hate assumed, they can *rationalize* it, as well as smooth it over rhetorically
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Here's a tip on how to avoid being mistaken for a Nazi: drop the kek thing. Lots of us associate it with Nazis after hundreds or thousands of online interactions with them. I'm not a communist but if I put "☭" in my handle, I won't be surprised when people think I am.
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So if people were more supportive of his bigotry he would be less bigoted? I never bought that narrative. Feels too much like deflecting.
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as an example take this reddit thread. most of the stories are quite similarhttps://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1p48k6/serious_ex_neonazis_and_racist_skin_heads_of/ …
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