My partner last night brought up an excellent point regarding Kessler. He didn't go there to speak. He went there to challenge the authority of a black woman. He failed.
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As far as Nazis go, Kessler and Spencer are actually pretty low-grade. Spencer made it by fooling the way-too-easily fooled media but in terms of rhetorical gift or charismatic genius he has none.
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In all their astonishingly insufferable bloviating hours of podcasts, Spencer and Kessler have offered nothing but whining and gleeful celebrations of their terror. They are off-the-rack empty suits.
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If "antifa" weren't around, it's not actually clear what they'd be about. They have a remedial understanding of what they want in an ethnostate but that's it.
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If you ever talk to someone with a Plan they won't shut up about it. They'll tell you the brand of whiteboard markers they intend to have in their startup space. They'll tell you about their growth projections and what the best workday for team lunch is.
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Spencer offers none of that. And like, we should definitely not let up and let him develop any of that. But ultimately he's got nothing to offer. He's a fraud inside his own framework.
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Are you saying antifascist counter protests are detrimental to the fight against white supremacy ? This surprises me, please clarify.
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Oh no not at all
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What I'm saying is he's so deep into being a victim of his own imagination that he has no idea what he's even about.
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Understood, I am just a bit defensive of anti fascism given the criticism of liberals.
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