1. So the whole discussion of "intellectual dark web," conservatives in liberal media etc. confuses two issues: should non-conservatives read right-wing authors (yes) & should liberal magazines publish right-wing authors (it depends).
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That's just because Douthat is trying to be too clever by half. It's in his interest to mainstream the worst in society so that he can offer regressive forms of Christian culture as the antidote.
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I don't agree with this distinction you're making between mediating with a fringe and promoting it. When you're writing in major newspapers, and you're talking about an intellectual movement, writing about is an act of changing it.
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I think that a lot of "op-ed author" style public intellectuals view what they're doing as a kind of logical game where their actions don't have consequences outside their own minds. And I don't accept the premise that Ross Douwhoever is acting in good faith
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There was also a slight problem where people didn’t believe the real argument would be “maybe sexual repression driven by religious shame is actually good”
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Admittedly those people clearly hadn’t read the oeuvre
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He took them entirely at their word and presented their "problem" as being exactly what they said it is. I know this clashes with the Approved Narrative where everyone misunderstood.....but we didn't.
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Whatever sympathies he may or may not have, Douthat absolutely tried to mainstream their concerns. "The incel community" is a radical, violently misogynist group, entirely male, entirely straight, almost entirely white.
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Douthat projected the things they claim to be concerned with onto EVERYONE who was not regularly engaging in sex that would like to. Would he have done this if the incels weren't an offshoot of another right-wing group (the MRAs)?
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Alt-right viewpoints are untranslatable because there’s no philosophical basis for them except for grievance
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"11. Douthat's notorious robot sex column can be seen as " < incredible hook
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