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
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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).
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If we insist that racists can’t make decent pasta and pass the salt when asked, we’re just inviting people to overlook evil when it fails to present itself with sufficient fanfare
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Do you think that's what I'm insisting or "they" are insisting?
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I’m not sure. You do seem to see something about the piece as a dismissal of the awfulness of his views. I don’t see it, but I don’t want to make assumptions about your take on it
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Replying to @AaronFriel @webdevMason
Yes, evil is banal. But, what if they're just so gosh darn nice about it when you ask them? The article does a good job of showing us what he believes, but then peppers it in with uncritical affirmations that it's okay to be a white supremacist.
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"Uncritical affirmations that it's okay to be a white supremacist"? Did we read the same piece?
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Replying to @webdevMason
I think so, did the screenshots I just took come from the wrong one?
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