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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Replying to @annaellis_net
Could you suggest a far-right view which does have theoretical, ideological depth and complexity?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @annaellis_net
That of Ezra Pound? Or any number of modernist intellectuals who flirted with far right politics?
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Replying to @ianpacemain @annaellis_net
Oh? Have you encountered this? I haven't heard any of them from any far-rightists. We reach an impasse immediately and there is nothing of substance being offered like there is on the far-left..
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Replying to @HPluckrose @annaellis_net
There certainly was in the early twentieth century. Try Eliot, Knut Hamsun, Gabriel d’Annunzio, Gottfried Benn and others.
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Replying to @ianpacemain @annaellis_net
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @annaellis_net
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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