God, people are stupid.
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Usually more likely that they misstated the principle than that they actually apply the principle in egregious ways. 2/2
Not sure in this case. Think he's playing a rhetorical game based on equivocating between "Nazi sympathizer" - somebody who feels bad for a
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person who is a Nazi (where the feeling bad is not motivated by anything to do with the person's Nazism); and Nazi sympathizer - somebody
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who sympathizes with the beliefs, values, aims of Nazism, and accordingly might feel sympathy with Nazis. Fallacy of equivocation basically.
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Yes, clearly. But I'm guessing it was an ill-thought argument to justify a pre-held position entirely independent of it.
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Yeah, probably. But the tweet was liked 7000 times and retweeted 22000 times... so it was worth... deconstructing.
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