This inverted incentive structure where if you bury it under enough big words and florid rhetoric you can make ignorance sound like wisdom, if it's something people really want to ignore "Wow, why did *I* never think of just saying 'But what if there is no racism'"
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You know where the seeds of bigoted violence are planted, of future kristallnachts and pogroms and holocausts It starts with false equivalence, with getting those who already have the privilege to see themselves as victims It's a key unskippable step
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Scott is probably personally in denial that he's doing this But he's taught tons of other people to do it His spinoff Reddit sub, r/TheMotte, has MAGAs making noises about stockpiling guns constantly now, and they use his language about the "Blue Tribe/Red Tribe" to do it
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I didn't plan this thread ahead and I don't have a snappy ending for it I will just say I am absolutely, bone-deep convinced Scott has caused far more direct and indirect harm to vulnerable people with his writing than we will ever know
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And however he performs fragility on the ol' TL and talks about being doxed and canceled and threatened, I do not for an instant believe he will EVER see even a small fraction come back to him of the harm he's caused And he gets zero charity/empathy/pity from me, and never will
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At worst, he openly paves the way for affliction of the afflicted He played an active role in ensuring the men who assaulted Kathy Forth and drove her to suicide got "due process" from the community to stick around and do it again (The missing post here had a significant typo)
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