Yes, this is a huge issue. If I could snap my fingers and make all America's guns disappear and then it would have same norms and presence of guns as UK, I would. That can't happen coz of the guns already there and the long history of them being a right and much tied into this.
This is what I mean about there being little substance or depth. I am making this point in response to the suggestion that ppl who criticise the left more are motivated by tribalism. I am saying, for me, it's about what's more interesting.
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I'd certainly agree re the intellectual buzz when you can *really* dig into the scholarship surrounding the issue. And most of the ethno-nationalism scholarship I know of deals with post-conflict national identities; not exactly the UK/US far-right's focus.
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Yes! Thank you! That is exactly what I mean by substance and complexity. This is my motivation for looking at extremist, irrational & illiberal thinking on the left rather than the right. So, defining the far-left & far-right is kind of beside the point for this purpose.
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that's true... I think tribalism has very little to do with that. A lot of people wake up right now because they see the polarization in the country and want to do something about that. I hope it helps and we get a deeper understanding, or we will see a lot of conflicts again.
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Yes, this is a different reason. I studied this for 7 years officially and ever since unofficially. I love getting into irrationalist ideology and figuring out how it works internally (it doesn't work, in reality) and this is my motivation for addressing it more than, say Trump.
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And more power to people like you! I like to read your articles and I am pretty happy that there are people like you who can invest the time and have fun with that. I sadly have not the time (or money) to do more in that direction right now.
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I think there are very few people who both love getting into critical theory and do so to pinpoint & delineate the flawed thinking. Most people who think this kind of thinking is flawed don't want to invest great amounts of time & energy into studying it & making it accessible.
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But there are a lot of people who want it made accessible so they can get a handle on it so I have a job here. I have actually been approached by a publishing house and asked to write a book doing this. I have said yes and am looking forward to it.
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Before this, I did it with Christianity and none of my fellow lefties minded. Now it's leftist PoMo-based academia, they do, and they suddenly regard it as highly suspicious.
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Not to be polarizing but I do feel if you say something on the right that the right disagrees with you are far better off because people still talk to you normally - on the left its like you lost your club membership and get excluded... - this is, however, my subjective view!
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