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> When your political agenda consists of annoying and offending "the other", they need to be present to take offense. I'm not sure what you mean by "the other"
by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> When your political agenda consists of annoying and offending "the other", they need to be present to take offense.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the other". "The other" is an actual concept signifying people who are somehow excluded from society. Rarely do people get banned for going after "the other". Most of these people get banned for going after mainstream journalists and politicians. Many don't get banned for going after anyone at all. And many get shadow banned without any notice or explanation.
Secondly, I don't think people on the right consider what people like Milo (for instance) do to be performative cruelty. They see it as exposing hypocrisy. They see it as exercising their god-given right to free speech.
- pjc50 6y agoMilo was more about the grift than the cruelty. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/milo-yiannopoulos-debt-money-alt-right-bankrupt-australian-events-management-a8665366.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/milo-yiannop... (entertaining little detail in there of one of the "anti-immigration" activists getting banned from Australia by their, er, immigration control)
- belltaco 6y agoI think they meant things like these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25046160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25046160