I don't know why some are so negative about this when it's obvious that political correctness does absolutely play a role in strengthening the far-right. Everyone with eyes can see that.
Alt-right radicalization: It's not just the algorithms. I often differ with R Douthat, but agree that suffocating PC can lead smart young men to think "You can't handle the truth" and get sucked into the alt-right fever swamp. (I've seen it.)https://nyti.ms/2ZdxI84
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Here are four good faith answers. 1. Because right of center people preach personal responsibility in every other circumstance. 2. Because we can't always trust that people who are radicalized are telling the truth about why they were radicalized. 1/2
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ah yes, it is famously very smart people who accidentally become alt right because someone told them racism was bad
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You forget he said he saw it happen once.
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Aren’t you still employed as a nominal social scientist
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Is THAT what he was doing on Epstein's plane?
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Thank you for speaking up about this! It happened to me!https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1020039128291786752?s=09 …
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Someone told me their pronouns so I destroyed a stack of dictionaries.
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Anecdotes can be helpful for social scientists actually. Critical theorists for example tend to take anecdotes very seriously.
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