this is obviously true but the point is you have to change the objective conditions that cause these sorts of people to appeal to peoplehttps://twitter.com/sarahmanavis/status/1126832392122044416 …
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we can and should get rid of shapiro by deplatforming him but that doesn't solve the underlying problem of the audience who like him
Yes but that’s what de-platforming en masse begins to do. Yes of course there are huge underlying problems that *all* of these right wing figures become an outlet for. But this is about platforming vs de platforming so your tweet isn’t really about that
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I guess my only point was that its genuinely unclear how instructive the Milo example is because we can't know how much of the success of that example was that there were other people who one could get their dosage of performative cruelty from
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Yes, but it’s happened to many others! I don’t know if you’re aware but I write about this for a living and milo is not the only case, yes it is complex, and this is a good start
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