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What's the deal with using guilt by association as a way to disparage or dismiss ideas? Seeing that a lot lately.

• rayiner 5y ago
  Ironically it’s an outgrowth of the very weakness in mindset that GP is talking about.
  • atlantas 5y ago
    That makes sense and would explain why it's become more common.
• AaronFriel 5y ago
  The "hard times create..." meme was originally shared by actual ethno-nationalists who have since been banned from most platforms. I don't know if the person I replied to knows that - I think there are a lot of people who don't. It's worth pointing out though there's a disconnect from the first sentence to the second. Why is it that we have to have hard times for us to be better? Well, the argument from the meme - which many people take seriously even if you or I don't - is that recent times have been easy and this has created weak (and other pejoratively described) men.
  • xyzzyz 5y ago
    No, it was originally shared with us by Greek philosophers, over 2 millennia ago.