I actually mean it when I say people have a duty to push back on the relentless humanizing of the right wing That's the whole asymmetry here - they *start off more humanized* The definition of being right wing is being the kind of person people reflexively think of as authentic
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When their whole power, their whole advantage, is being the person who naturally belongs in society as it's presently constituted, and you're in the position of always being the outsider who's there on sufferance You cannot win the game of humanization
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It does not matter what they do or what you do, the reasonable people in the middle will find a way to humanize them and dehumanize you There'll always be some cute story about the people putting up the gallows and how nice and polite they were to the people they wanted to hang
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You have to deal with Nazis *based on what they do* - in this case violently storm the Capitol building and try to steal the election If you don't keep your gaze laser focused on that you can see the conversation drifting around in real time to humanizing them again
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That crazy-pills feeling of people talking about togetherness and reconciliation *directly in the aftermath of a coup* Deciding to just go ahead and move forward with a Congress that *went ahead and seated the elected officials who openly supported sedition*
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It's also evocative of the calls from the right (from my experience as an lgbtq activist) that we have to tolerate intolerance or we're being hypocritical.
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