> There’s a term for this sort of bad-faith argument: it’s called the justification-suppression model. The theory is that bigots refrain from directly defending

> There’s a term for this sort of bad-faith argument: it’s called the justification-suppression model. The theory is that bigots refrain from directly defending their own bigotry but get hugely riled up justifying the abstract right to express bigotry. I doubt I'll remember it, but I was searching for some term to describe why this essay immediately set off alarm bells. I probably don't know enough about PG to know if he's really writing this essay in such explicit bad faith, but it certainly activated some neurons in my internet-trained mental spam filter. Now I have a name for that pattern