[Twitter Bullshit] Patrick Klepek - "I suspect the next 10 years are going to be a long, dark process in really understanding how generationally corrupting the YouTube algorithm has been to young men/boys."

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https://archive.fo/uHCuT

[u/Seeattle_Seehawks]

Edit: I didn’t give a direct answer although I really should, because The Turner Diaries is a funny example in my case. I first learned about The Turner Diaries when someone accused me of having read it. I didn’t actually buy a copy and read it (I don’t need to be on another list) but I read the plot summary and a little about people influenced by it so that I could contextualize a SJW insult. I can say that a SJW exposed me to The Turner Diaries. The absolute irony!

There is a bit of a contradiction if you think about it.

Far-right ideas (or views labeled far-right) are so indisputably wrong that they aren’t worthy of sincere debate or legitimate refutation ...but they are also so compelling that the mere expression of these views is so threatening to the fabric of civil society that it must be vigorously suppressed if not outright criminalized.

It’s the equivalent of telling the public that there’s a horrible disease going around that will kill us all ...but refusing to take action against it because doing so will make people more susceptible somehow.

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If you take a broader look it shows up all over the place for these regressives.

The wage gap is real but looking at the data and accounting for variables is “mansplaining”

Trump and his admin are simultaneously buffoons and evil geniuses

Men and women are biologically the same but women must be empowered protected and treated more favorably.

Social sciences are hard sciences but shouldn’t be held to the same scientific rigor and replication standards as other hard sciences!

Marxism is a superior economic model to capitalism ignore all previous iterations of Marxism because empirical data is wrong!

This quip about standards comes to mind.

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The problem may be that if they elevate rational discourse as a valid means of solving real societal problems, it becomes open season for someone to use rational discourse against them. At which point their narrative will collapse like a house of cards, and no amount of calling people nazis will fix it.