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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2018

      Michael Thurlow: I am a Nazi. Jon Kay: Michael Thurlow is not a Nazi. Me: If someone says he's a Nazi, that's good enough for me. What's puzzling is why Kay is making a fool of himself.pic.twitter.com/dxfkInJGNg

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2018

      So why is @jonkay so intent on denying that someone who calls himself a Nazi is Nazi (and instead saying that that person is just "making insensitive arguments). I think the answer is anti-anti-racism.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2018

      Kay is deeply committed to the idea that racism is not a serious problem in modern North America. So he literally cannot admit that anyone, even an avowed Nazi, is a racist.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2018

          Part of Kay's argument (if you want to dignify it as such) is only people who ran concentration camps in 1945 are actual Nazis. That seems historically obtuse.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2018

          I mean, even in 1933-1945, most Nazis didn't run actual concentration camps. And the Nazis that existed since then don't have power, so they can't, but they do have the ideology.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Mar 2018

          There are people influenced by Nazi ideology who are killing people in the present.The fact they don't run concentration camps is of little comfort to me. Yet Kay wants to discount this reality. Why? https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-resurgent-threat-of-white-supremacist-violence/550634/ …

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        2. Estarianne, BS, MA, A.N.T.I.F.A.  👩🏼‍💻‏ @estarianne 5 Mar 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Mmmhmmm, no its bigger than that. He's specifically trying to divide political ideology from outcomes. He's saying that the Nazis were only those who actually did Nazi things in WWII and we can't generalize their behavior to others with the same beliefs.

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        3. Charles Gaba  🇺🇦‏Verified account @charles_gaba 5 Mar 2018
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          That’s pretty nuch @MarcACaputo’s take as well.

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        1. José Luis Granados Ceja‏ @GranadosCeja 5 Mar 2018
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          Or, since he’s basically been run out of liberal circles, he knows the only way his career continues is pandering to the far right, the “Jordan Peterson” play

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        1. (((Vaxxed to the max)))‏ @Lev_Davidovitch 5 Mar 2018
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          I think @jonkay thinks he's a dandy free-speech provocateur by doing this when in reality EVERYONE looks at him and shake their heads in pity and incredulity. Kay has his own dillusional "truths" and it's senseless to debate him any longer.

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        1. Penny Mills‏ @Pennyvane10 5 Mar 2018
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          For a while Kay tried to understand & empathize. Unfortunately he didn't realize that even so, his privilege got in the way. So now he's acting out after he got spanked. Also, there is his mother.

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        1. m w bowman‏ @mbowman 6 Mar 2018
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          It's partly this, and partly that his obsession with some hollow form of "intellectual diversity" gives him incentive to pretend that every vile asshole with a political opinion is actually not a vile asshole, but someone who deserves to have their viewpoint considered.

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        1. Mark Bourrie‏Verified account @MarkBourrie 6 Mar 2018
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          Ah, the first straw man.

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