Do you remember my rant a couple of months back about GG and the alt-right?
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GG was mostly apolitical, mostly moderate people who were baffled by the sudden politicization of their hobby.
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In response, they were smeared as basically Hitler. This, as much as anything else, generated the alt-right.
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This doesn't *justify* the alt-right, who are more often vile than not. But it's what you get when you...
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...scream down moderate voices as literally Hitler--the extreme voices who are actually Hitler are the ones left.
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& reasonable people get wary of saying anything that'd connect them with actual-Hitler in others' minds
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @St_Rev and
then creating that association becomes a way to shut down discussion of topics you don't want discussed
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I'm working on a piece abt this. van Vogt's Right Man as group pathology. https://phinnweb.blogspot.com/2004/10/right-man-and-fear-of-losing-face.html …
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