ah yes a column on the societal pros & cons of sex redistribution from the man who argued for using the force of the state to ban anything deemed pornographic
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I’m not the most charitable reader so bear that in mind but when you remember Douthat wants to ban porn, his whole tactic in the incel piece seems to be threatening society with state sponsored rape unless the state instead embraces a more puritanical brand of oppression
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it’s hidden well because Ross is brilliant at obfuscating the trick behind strong prose & bafflingly obscure subject matter experts but really all this piece boils down to the well-worn trick of blaming society’s moral sins for creating a small band of internet freaks
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have begun to resent morality-based political argumentation for this reason; it always winds up in the wagon ruts of sinfulness -> libertine society -> threats of state oppression on behalf of “sinful” group -> reluctant embrace of state oppression on behalf of “good” group
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this is pretty much the same trick used to blame various factions for creating internet nazis; you’re harnessing the internet nazis and wielding them as a club in hope of obtaining your desired political ends.
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I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t trust any analysis of a band of horrible internet freaks that isn’t willing to stop at “these horrible internet freaks are bad and we as a society should band together to agree they’re bad” but instead shoehorns in preferred moral positions
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And really the idea that dudes are doing shitty things cus they are over stimulated by porn, small clothes, etc is bullshit. Dudes have always done shitty thing because of issues with women. Here’s a serial killer raised in the 40s and 50s that sounds a lot like an incelpic.twitter.com/ZdMfQaFn4P
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