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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jesse Walker

      1. The linked article by @ebruenig is characteristically thoughtful, and should provoke a conversation about how Nazism and trolling aren't mutually exclusive. In fact Nazism has always had a large element of half-joking.https://twitter.com/notjessewalker/status/1106549253449703431 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Jesse Walker @notjessewalker
      I disagree with parts of this, but the description of the manifesto is exactly right. The document really represents his ideology, but it's filled with trolling too. It's like a Pepe meme with an actual gun. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/15/new-zealand-attack-fundamental-thoughtlessness-evil/ …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

      2. This is something Sartre noticed in 1944: Nazis rhetoric often includes absurd jokey flourishes, to better destabilize reality. From Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew":pic.twitter.com/K6eDj2zO5O

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

      3. Lately I've been reading (in my madness) a fair bit of Wyndham Lewis, who was both a very funny writer and also, for a spell in the early 1930s, a Nazi fellow traveller. Those two facts are connected.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

      4. In the 1920s, Lewis styled himself "The Enemy" and was in fact a master troll whose insults managed to get under the skin of everyone from James Joyce to Virginia Woolf to Ernest Hemingway.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

      5. Lewis called Hemingway "the Dumb Ox." Hemingway remembered and in his posthumously published autobiography said Lewis had the "eyes of an unsuccessful rapist."

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

      6. Lewis' reflexive oppositionalism, his esprit de contradiction fused with reactionary politics. His core argument in 1920s was that "Western Man" (i.e straight white men) were being victimized by feminists, "homos" and celebrators of non-white culture.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

      7. Lewis' book "Hitler" (1931 and I believe the first full length on Hitler) is interesting on a number of counts: it shows the strong homophobic undercurrent of Nazism (Lewis thought Hitler would clean up decadent Berlin) & also as portraying Hitler as a good natured joker.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

          8. Lewis liked Nazis because he thought they were pranksters, like himself: "The Welanschauung of the Hitlerist...is laughing and gay compared to that of his opponents, the Communist."

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

          9. This passage from Lewis' Hitler captures his avuncular, jokey Nazism and can usefully be compared to the manifesto of the Christchurch alleged shooter (in content and trolly intent).pic.twitter.com/meDuFOoEkm

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Jeet Heer

          10. Lewis, as I was suggesting the other day, is a real precursor to the contemporary far right. His trajectory from 1920s troll (using excuse of "free speech" & provocation as well as mask of anti-anti-racism) let to brief 1930s Nazi fellow travellinghttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1105498358020481024 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          Wyndham Lewis -- a truculent, nihilist insult comedian who liked using slurs for their shock value -- is far closer to the modern right than that snivelling Tory nostalgist T.S. Eliot.
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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

          11. The whole "joking/not joking" thing is a crucial part of Nazi rhetorical strategy: a way of getting people to acclimatize to shocking and vile ideas. Daily Stormer: "The unindoctrinated should not be able to tell if we are joking or not."https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/19/neo-nazis-hatred-comedy-racist-daily-stormer …

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2019

          12. I have some longer thoughts on jokey, trollish Nazis here:https://newrepublic.com/article/139004/ironic-nazis-still-nazis …

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        1. Prefect‏ @p_r_e_f_e_c_t 15 Mar 2019
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          Back in 2016, James Fallows linked some videos of Mussolini giving speeches, and even though I don't know what he was saying, he was clearly being a goofy-ass joker sometimes. He was clowny.

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