It’s not a strawman—just do the math on what % of humanity is one or more of {racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, …}, bearing in mind that failing to toe the progressive party line on even one category makes you a “bigot.”
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hikikomorphism 🏝 🛰️ Retweeted Morlock Publishing
jumping back into this thread to point out that sometimes, socjus accusations about, eg, libertarians really being closeted nazi sympathizers are accurate.https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1054733083738628096 …
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @LexCorvus and
(I don't think "Nazi sympathy" is either a fair or a charitable way to characterize that tweet The joke relies on his Dislike of Nazis)
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Replying to @eigenrobot @LexCorvus and
it literally states that an action taken by nazis (one that was a precursor to genocide, too, not something meaningless in this context like instituting some law against animal cruelty) makes him likes them more. 'Sympathizer' seems fair.
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @LexCorvus and
the joke is that he doesn't like Nazis and doesn't want to like Nazis "Stalin pushed for a return to traditional gender norms" "UGH stop trying to make me like Stalin" you would hardly infer the speaker was a Stalinist sympathizer no?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @hikikomorphism and
and here we are, at the bottom of all debates, explaining irony and humor to one another
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and
Jokes precede actuality enough times that yes, you should weight it as a factor, because to do otherwise is to shut your eyes to reality and blow out thought. You can call it postrationality or metarationality if you like, but it's just being another kind of mindkilled partisan.
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Exactly - sometimes jokes are used to provide a smokescreen of plausible deniability. This is, what a coincidence, a favorite tactic of Pinochet fanboys.
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