I'm finding this conversation interesting, on a number of levels. I'd need a detailed definition of "far-right views" before I could join in a dialogue of whether it's "blindingly obvious" that they are wrong/don't have any substance.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/979764760009994241 …
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My issue is this: anti-semitism is prevalent across a linear political spectrum, tending to coagulate around the extremist fringes of both Left and Right. Ditto ethnonationalism (http://m4bl.org , SA political parties, etc.) Ditto AnCap/AnSoc. Horseshoe theory ftw.
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See. Now we can't have a conversation about extremism because we've got bogged down. In reality, we all know extreme versions of leftism and rightism exist and are known as far-left and far-right and can point to examples of it.
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I'd suggest we *can* have a conversation about extremism. It's arguable that shoehorning the subject into a linear analogy no longer works as our understanding of the political spectrum is now more akin to that of a radar chart.
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Assuming the radar chart approach, we could define key ideological points and then measure/assess ideologies in a a multivariate approach.
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We could certainly write an essay defining extremism, yes, but for the purpose of the context of this Twitter conversation, we have got stuck. I'm left back where I was which is saying that far-left extremists are citing current scholarship I can get my teeth into, not far-right
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As you've pointed out elsewhere on this increasingly bifurcated thread, that's almost certainly due to the lack of opportunity for academics to produce that research. I'm sure far-right extremists are citing scholarship, but whether it's either current or peer-reviewed is the q.
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You are? None of them are citing it to me. I get very bored, very fast coz nothing of substance. But I won't die on that hill. I might have missed them. It is the reason I am focused on the far-left tho. Their extremist loons are accessible and often published & I can address it
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You could argue extreme religious fundamentalism, antisemitism and libertarianism are all possible left wing thought processes also.
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Anarchosocialism/anarchosyndicalism springs to mind re socioeconomic far-left libertarianism.
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