Doing the exact same things to the Nazis that the Nazis did to other people would have been extremely justified
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
So you agree that if the history had been different, Nazi actions would have been justified?
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Yes, obviously The "history" is 100% what makes something justified or unjustified It is what justifies things
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Lol this is why you people are thick as bricks You really do believe in context-free moral judgment, like you can parachute in from your view from nowhere and just declare things are good or evil from your lofty white man objectivity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Arthur, if Scott Alexander gets cancelled, I will do my best to tell the entire world that you think there's a history under which Nazi acts are justified. No joke.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Sure, a history in which those acts were done to the Nazis by their enemies would be a banging awesome history
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
As an online discussion of alternative histories continues, the probability of an alternative history in which something different happened to or with the Nazis approaches one. Usually within a day; sometimes within the hour. Sometimes sooner.
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Replying to @sfmnemonic @arthur_affect and
Hey man, it was them who started throwing around the term Nazi with abandon, not me.
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Replying to @iridienne @sfmnemonic and
I encourage anyone who believes I'm lying to gain more background on this discourse--the thing started when people like
@arthur_affect decided they wanted to throw around the term "Nazi" to describe devoted readers of a thoughtful Jewish psychiatry blogger3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
If Steve Sailer isn't a "Nazi" then who the hell is
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