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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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
You're saying because it's corny, it never happens? That doesn't follow.
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I'm saying that because it's corny, ignorant dipshits who are suckers for tropey glurge wildly exaggerate how often it happens and how relevant it is to social change
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
As someone who is very familiar with Nazis and also some ex-Nazis, I can confirm. Many of them had friends of color or family members who didn’t know their ideology. That didn’t necessarily cause them any cognitive dissonance....
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Replying to @Antifagator @arthur_affect and
... they even brag to each other about it. “I get along great with Juan because my social skills are so good, I like him personally but he’s still gonna get deported once we set up the ethnostate.”
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