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The Nazis did not gain power (by democracy) by promoting the atrocities they were to commit ten years later, because this was not a persuasive argument then. Instead, they enacted propaganda campaigns which shifted public opinion towards enabling them.
And that is the real danger to societies right now, and all the attention on Yarvin or John de Goes takes attention away from the slow but steady, incremental normalization of unpleasant ideas promoted by political parties in almost every developed country right now.
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That gradual shift in what decent members of society consider acceptable or normal is what has made police violence towards protesters, locking up refugee children in cages, and the general suspicion of foreigners more acceptable, politically.
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We have a limited amount of energy to fight this shift, and spending any of it on an easy and at-hand target like John de Goes, is a waste of time, and I resent the distraction away from those dangers that have a greater likelihood of destroying modern society in the long term.
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There's a direct line from Yarvin and Thiel to Bannon, Trump, etc. You may find Yarvin unpersuasive (I'm glad if you do), but that doesn't mean he doesn't have influence (which De Goes played some small role in extending):https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein …
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Firstly, thanks (seriously) for engaging with me in good faith on this. I'm aware of the link, and Yarvin may indirectly feed the ideas of the Trump administration. But I think it's harder to argue that the public should not have visibility of what crap Steve Bannon is being fed.
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IMHO, this is where we would committing a huge mistake : the fight against racism, misogyny, etc... won't be won by attacking heads of political parties head on. Recent years have shown that it doesn't work well : there are enough supporters so that it stays alive.
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However, fighting everyday acts of racism, misogyny, etc... or support of it, no matter the level and visibility of the one doing it, will slowly move these ideas where they belong : in the trash. And when there is no longer people listening those ideas, the fight is "won".
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