Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I'm surprised that "white nationalist in Ohio posts horrible things online, is actually a terribly boring human" is backlash-worthy

To me, the saddest thing here is that the miasma of stable mediocrity rolling off of every inch of this guy is apparently something that liberals think will sell nazism

Sell != normalize, I think. The objection I've seen is that the NYTimes piece suggests there's nothing wrong with holding horrific views if you're a guy a mother would love and make decent pasta.

It definitely doesn’t, though. Anyone with an internalized sense of the banality of evil doesn’t struggle against “good manners, terrible beliefs” because they don’t need harm to come with horns and finger-tenting

I think most people don't have that concept internalized, and normalizing evil is all it takes for more people to participate in it (see: spiral of silence).