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    1. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Feb 26

      Patri Friedman Retweeted Sad Squiggly Ghost Strangled Nicely on a Sunny Day

      1/ Ok, I agree that the line between good and evil falls exactly between "advertising for Jordan Peterson" and "advertising for Stefan Molyneux". BUT it's insane hypocrisy for the left to criticize the right for...recruiting from the desperate and suffering.https://twitter.com/MrHappyDieHappy/status/967027082537721856 …

      Patri Friedman added,

      Sad Squiggly Ghost Strangled Nicely on a Sunny Day @MsHappyDieHappy
      NOBODY is talking about how the online depression community has been infiltrated by alt-right recruiters deliberately preying on the vulnerable. There NEED to be public warnings about this. 'Online pals' have attempted to groom me multiple times when at my absolute lowest.
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    2. Steuard Jensen‏ @steuard Feb 26
      Replying to @patrissimo

      It's not "the Right" recruiting that's an issue, it's the Nazis recruiting. Which is pretty explicitly what the alt-Right is, with their conventions straight-arm shouting "Heil Trump" and marches alongside Nazi flags.

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    3. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Feb 26
      Replying to @steuard

      Just the flag alone shows what an absurd criticism this is. For a tribe whose mildest extremists can wear a Communist flag to criticize a tribe whose tiny fraction of ultra-extremists wear a Nazi flag is, from an objective evaluation of evil, complete hypocrisy.

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    4. Steuard Jensen‏ @steuard Feb 26
      Replying to @patrissimo

      Also, I reject the notion that communist flags and Nazi flags are comparably evil symbols. Yes, communism seems inevitably to go Very Badly, but its ideals at least *sound* noble. There is. no. noble. ideal. behind Nazism or the Klan: they're evil all the way down.

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    5. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Feb 26
      Replying to @steuard

      Sorry, but this is a false and content-free template fill: "I reject the notion that [evil symbol ingroup uses] and [evil symbol outgroup uses] are comparably evil. Yes, each was used by mass murderers, but [our mass murderers] had noble ideals which [their mass murders] didn't"

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    6. Steuard Jensen‏ @steuard Feb 26
      Replying to @patrissimo

      Patri. You are talking about Nazis. *Nazis*. Please tell me the "noble ideals" associated with the Nazi cause that you consider it acceptable for someone today to admire. I recognize that your "template" is a nasty and pernicious pattern. But you are defending *Nazis*.

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      Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Feb 26
      Replying to @steuard

      Sorry, but when did I defend Nazis? I am looking back at the text of our exchange and not seeing anything that defends Nazis. I merely pointed out that "association with murderous hateful groups" is something done by both left and right (hence why both horrify me).

      10:14 PM - 26 Feb 2018
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        2. Steuard Jensen‏ @steuard Feb 27
          Replying to @patrissimo

          Everything you're saying is in defense of the position that Nazis are no worse than any other extreme-ish political faction. That a man waving a torch and shouting "Jew shall not replace us!" is somehow equivalent to a painfully naive teenager wearing a Che shirt.

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        3. Steuard Jensen‏ @steuard Feb 27
          Replying to @steuard @patrissimo

          That naive teenager can at least claim that she's an admirer of Guevara's utopian prose and ideals even though she deplores his actions. She may be a fool, but she's motivated by good. There is nothing redeeming, nothing admirable in Nazism: it is evil in BOTH action and motive.

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        4. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Feb 27
          Replying to @steuard

          There are redeeming and admirable things about nationalism & ethnonationalism. Those things don't mean "hating and killing", they mean organizing in like groups to form societies. And most alt right are ethnonationalists, not Nazi-lovers.

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        5. Steuard Jensen‏ @steuard Feb 27
          Replying to @patrissimo

          Yeah, I'm not going to be okay with ethnonationalism as "redeeming and admirable". I don't see any way to separate ethnonationalism from ethnic cleansing (which I've seen alt-Right people advocate, in various less and more violent forms). It's a *bad* way to form a society.

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        6. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Feb 27
          Replying to @steuard

          I see America as the first large, successful non-ethnostate. So ethnonationalism is the foundation of every country in history & the most proven way to build a stable society. I like US better, but it still seems insane to call ethnonat irredeemably evil w/ nothing admirable!

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        7. Steuard Jensen‏ @steuard Feb 28
          Replying to @patrissimo

          I recognize that ethnonationalism played an important historical role, but it did so at enormous cost. Probably the greatest social achievement of the 20th century was to begin to move beyond that, and due to that history it's so very fragile. Going back is utterly unacceptable.

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        8. Patri Friedman‏ @patrissimo Mar 1
          Replying to @steuard

          While I agree with you about the superiority of a blended society, I think it is the fragile system. I think an objective appraisal of Europe or America today clearly shows "post-ethnonationalism" to have been foolishly optimistic. Sad, but you gotta admit it to fix it.

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