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If you wanna refer to some "psychological type" you should define it and explain it. Throwing around "X is a sociopath" "Y is the type of brigading that leads t
by devenblake 5y ago
If you wanna refer to some "psychological type" you should define it and explain it. Throwing around "X is a sociopath" "Y is the type of brigading that leads to Hitler" without explanation or clarity is crying wolf to the people who will read your comment and associate it with your belief. They could be totally valid analogues! But personally I find it hard to connect self censorship to fascism when the "other side" (subjective) stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn a democratic election. Of course, maybe we're doomed on every direction we could turn.
- axguscbklp 5y agoIf you add up all of the political violence used by the two main power groupings against each other in the last year or so, I think it ends up being about the same. To me, the storming of the Capitol has roughly the same weight as all of the BLM-related violence does. The psychological type I am referring to is something like this: Hatred and desire for revenge and power wrapped up inside an ideology that claims to base itself fundamentally on something other than just hatred and desire for revenge and power. Psychological poverty and inflexibility - there is a one-sided obsession with politics to the point that everything is primarily seen through a political lens and other people are viewed not as three-dimensional but primarily along tribal lines. Moral obsession - a conviction that one has a moral mandate. Simplicity - ideology and propaganda that reduces complex issues to simple ideas and slogans. Intolerance for opposing thought and speech - love of censorship and so on.