So @iridienne was, in fact, correct
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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 @PlzBeSensible and
This particular article is especially garbage because HE IS ON THEIR SIDE He AGREES that the woke cancelation mobs of raving SJWs are about to tear apart the Republic and he's trying to argue Trump is a BAD STRATEGY for opposing them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
I know they say not to read the comments but if you want to honestly evaluate what kind of community Scott fosters, read the comments The big debate that takes place under this article mostly consists of the pro-Trump half of his commenters just getting more radicalized
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
"Scott understands the threat but he's too nice and sheltered and doesn't see the true level of danger" It's a constant refrain with him (because he is in fact absurdly narcissistically terrified of SJWs and surrounds himself with people to validate that fear)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
I don't understand this tweet, can you clarify
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Almost everything about Slatestarcodex is based on a dislike and fear of "woke culture cancel mobs" That's the one cultural commonality they all have despite claiming to be "politically diverse" Back in the day it was even more specific, they specifically despised Gawker Media
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That's their guiding ethos
It's not a secret at all
The one political "side" that's always missing from their "diverse" conclave is the "SJWs", people who participate in Black Lives Matter protests and actively support deplatforming and think #MeToo
hasn't gone far enough
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
What Scott likes to do is attract people to his little salon who are *even more paranoid* about "the wokes" than he is so he can take the position of the moderate, so he can feel like the sane and reasonable one It's really fucking transparent
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
So he can say to an audience of frothing, raving white supremacists "Your concerns are valid but you're just mistaken about how best to address them" and feel like the most reasonable person in the room
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