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> "intellectual dark web," are being scapegoated by social media platforms for precisely the reasons Girard describes for picking scapegoats This is a term tha
by peteretep 7y ago
> "intellectual dark web," are being scapegoated by social media platforms for precisely the reasons Girard describes for picking scapegoats
This is a term that's meant to include both Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson. I suspect if she was alive today, it would also include Ayn Rand. If you're looking for complicated reasons why these figures are not taken seriously from an intellectual perspective, I suspect you are missing the simpler ones.
- whatshisface 7y agoIt's not that they aren't being taken seriously, they're being taken immensely seriously. As serious as a foreign invasion, perhaps undeservedly.
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoI consistently find something utterly amazing in people fear-mongering about, say, Quilette magazine, as if they were printing scary evil propaganda rather than a bunch of boring articles complaining about college administrators nobody liked in the first place.
- fullshark 7y agoIt's not fear mongering, it's an attempt to label them as deficient/unworthy. Thus if you want to be SEEN as a serious intellectual (which is what most intellectually minded people actually want as opposed to interesting discussion) you don't pay them mind.
- jcora 7y agoI mean they also publish in favor of 'human biodiversity' and then get lauded as a bastion of intellectual discussion by a large amount of people.