I guess I just can't connect your points here about taking preemptive action against Nazis with the action being to strip Scott of either his blog or his job. Seems like we can keep punching Nazis AND let Scott do his thing, and the two aren't interfering with each other.
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Replying to @cowtung @ThePrussian1 and
Scott is friendly with white nationalists, and to the extent that Scott has access to respectability and clout, he provides them access to it too
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThePrussian1 and
I simply haven't seen enough evidence to warrant "friendly". Perhaps "patient with". I like for the world to have some diversity. Scott is a weirdo. I'm reminded of this:https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes …
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Replying to @cowtung @arthur_affect and
God, this guy is literally the ONE EXAMPLE you assholes always hold up. The thing is a) not all of these people, by a long shot, actually "converted away" from racism or even actually left the KKK (there have been follow-ups; some of them were right back at it);
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Replying to @iridienne @cowtung and
and b) THIS METHOD DOESN'T SCALE. Nobody gives a shit what is going on in the secret hearts of bigots. We just want them to stop doing bigoted things. There are WAY MORE EFFECTIVE methods of accomplishing that than asking them very nicely, one by one, to stop.
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Replying to @iridienne @cowtung and
Scott wrote a post encouraging his readers to vote for anyone but Trump: https://web.archive.org/web/20200220221540/https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/28/ssc-endorses-clinton-johnson-or-stein/ … That seems pretty scaleable to me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Did anyone's anti-Trump articles work?
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
So
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
I don't understand the critique--"Scott's anti-Trump article did not prevent Trump's election"? That critique could also be made of every journalist who wrote an anti-Trump article My suspicion is that Scott's article did more than most
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My suspicion is that the months and months Scott spent reassuring "Gray Tribe" and "Red Tribe" people in "Blue Tribe Enemy Territory" that they weren't terrible people and their resentments and insecurities were valid and all that shit did far far more than that one article
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
The big moment where you turn around and pull a judo maneuver and "spend the capital you've accrued" does not work You can't spend months befriending a Nazi telling them being a Nazi is not so bad and then suddenly go "Ah HA, the big reveal is that it IS bad"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Jesus fuck like I'm not on the Internet and I haven't seen this corny-ass story a million times "And then I looked my friend Hans in the eye and said 'Those Jews you talk so much about... I am one of them' And silently, he began to weep" Gag me
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