Arthur admitted elsewhere in this thread that he was a conflict theorist "born in the womb". So you can't trust him to make this assessment for you. Or trust the bits of info he has cherry-picked about Scott's blog to be fair. I recommend you read Scott's blog for yourself.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Cybren and
Sure you can Conflict theorists are correct
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Do you believe in the principle of charity? If not, why should anyone reading this thread trust you to give a charitable assessment of Scott?
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Cybren and
They shouldn't, they should trust me to give a correct one, based on my kneejerk sense of disgust, which is correct
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Again, a perfectly white supremacist tweet we've got here. 1000% confident in their kneejerk sense of disgust. It's their guiding principle.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Cybren and
"Look at these Allied troops! Signing up to fight in a war! Excited to do it! To kill people! With guns! Just like the Nazis! Hypocrites! You should be like me, who did the opposite of what a Nazi would do! You don't see the Nazis surrender to the Nazis, do you?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
The Allies were not guided by a kneejerk sense of disgust. They were working to stop a genocidal maniac.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @arthur_affect and
*protect their own strategic interests
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Replying to @Cybren @PlzBeSensible and
The degree to which the Allies didn't actually care about stopping genocide until the Nazis messed with the Allies strategic interest is rather terrifying and shaming.1 reply 4 retweets 43 likes -
If the Allies *had* experienced a knee jerk feeling of horror and disgust towards genocide that was strong enough to propel them to act against the Nazis, we would have been better off. This wasn't the case.
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The kneejerk sense of disgust existed, of course, and a lot of the most devoted anti-Nazi partisans were driven by it, as antifa are today
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and
FDR and Churchill had to actively fight against it to fight the war "rationally", turning down requests to attack the camps even though they weren't strategic military targets
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and
Just like, as much as the Union in the US Civil War were no angels and were driven by realpolitik, emancipation would not have happened if there weren't widespread kneejerk moral disgust against slavery
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