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I do want to shut it down at the first scent of a malformed, intellectually stunted alt-right-prescribed viewpoint as it’s tiresome to constantly need to succes

by debt 8y ago

I do want to shut it down at the first scent of a malformed, intellectually stunted alt-right-prescribed viewpoint as it’s tiresome to constantly need to successfully shoot down the barrage of canned Shapiro/Peterson/Bannon-esque rebuttals to every left-leaning viewpoint or policy. Alt-right viewpoints are simply noise at this point akin to listening to the distant echoes of thousands of YouTube videos simultaneously. So when I see the tired phrase “virtue signaling” I think “uh oh here we go...” Sorry if I’m triggered by it.

dvtrn 8y ago
One does not need to apologize for having raw nerves in this political climate. That's understandable. It's hair trigger word association and bad faith presumptions of complicity with "the other" for reasons as shallow as expressing dissent without real substance or political vigor that some seem to be growing fatigued with. I won't sit here and promulgate respectability politics just say that when one ignores their own political baggage and hubris it passively signals to everyone watching it's fair game for them to do so as well. And the noise just gets louder as a result.