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 …
No, I realise that far-right scholarly views exist. My point is very much about current political debates right now and why I don't spend as much time combattng far-right views & Trumpism & populism. They're not calling on anything I can get teeth into.
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Personally I'm wary of conflating Trumpism, populism and the "far-right". For many, a vote for Trump was a vote against Clinton and/or "the establishment".
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Don;t conflate them, then. I think they are distinct. To say that I am not getting anything of interest from them is not to say they are the same thing.
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Some Holocaust deniers are not fools, and some know a lot about processing and interpreting documents. In an absolutely fraudulent way, for sure, but they are certainly not stupid - that’s why they’re dangerous.
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There's something to get your teeth into there, is there? I'm not suggesting they are stupid. I am saying that they haven't given me anything of substance to engage with whilst the far-left sends me on much more interesting explorations of critical theory.
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