2. In the wake of a mass shooting rooted in anti-Black racism, we're seeing a lot of "both sides do it" from people who pride themselves as independent non-partisan actors (Greenwald, Mounk, Sullivan), all dishonestly conflating banal sociology with conspiracy theories.
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3. The conflation is between the idea that demographic change results in social/political change (almost a truism) and the conspiracy theory that a hidden cabal (often coded as Jews) are using immigration to commit white genocide. Those are not the same thing.
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4. Making observations about demographic change isn't the Great Replacement for the simple reason that demographic change is an inevitable feature of all human (and animal!) societies. A species whose members die & reproduce will have demographic change.
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@thenation I spoke with@EoinHiggins_ about Greenwald's particular dishonesty in this debate but what we say applies to the broader "both-sides" community.https://www.thenation.com/podcast/politics/tucker-carlson-glenn-greenwald/ …Show this thread
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the doctrine of "both sides" requires centrists like yascha mounk to constantly imagine leftists to get mad at
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On a pretty fundamental level most of these people are taking right-wing money and so aren't going to find fault with the right-wing unless it can be blamed on the left. Some of it is audience capture, some of it is funding from places like think tanks.
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is it even bothsideism, they believe the right is redeemable and ultimately good but the left is unsalvageable
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I too like to invent beliefs, imagine others believe them, and then get mad at those people.
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You don’t understand centrism.
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