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> As a very progressive person, I quite enjoyed his critique of the modern Leftist ideals and why they would create the factionalism we see today, and he's argu

> As a very progressive person, I quite enjoyed his critique of the modern Leftist ideals and why they would create the factionalism we see today, and he's arguing not as a conservative, but as a third position that is not represented by any mainstream camp. Realistically his opinions are held by a substantial amount of people that most would label conservative, although it's not mainstream conservatism for sure. And certainly not mainstream republicanism.

sph 3y ago
As a non American, the dichotomy that is all the rage nowadays is two camps whose position is literally just "we hate everything the other side loves". The point of Kaczynski is that both camps are mostly composed of middle-class Western academics living a sheltered life that are deciding who is socially accepted and who need to be cancelled. Our culture wars are not minorities shouting for a better life, our culture war is made of middle-class white people getting offended on behalf of minorities. They are no Martin Luther King, no Malcolm X, they just are posers that are making the racial (and gender and sexual) divide even worse than it is, by polarising or alienating the silent neutral majority. This is a longer argument that's put more eloquently in the manifesto than I could ever write on a comment box.
- watwut 3y ago
  You don't know much about Martin Luther King, do you?
  - Alenycus 3y ago
    > You don't know much about Martin Luther King, do you?
    - watwut 3y ago
      Definitely a bit more then someone who is trying to use his name in the above context.
- katamarimambo 3y ago
  Kaczynski was a middle-class Western academic who tried to literally cancel the lives of those he deemed unacceptable, which included people from both camps. Thank god there's a divide, otherwise I would be obliged to agree with you.
notahacker 3y ago
And most of his arguments about the Left specifically is the generic list of conservative/right-wing characterisations of the Left (obviously the rest of his philosophy has little to do with conservatism, mainstream or otherwise!). Leftists hate strength and rationality. Leftists only pretend to care about minorities. Leftists are self-hating losers who are afraid of competition Genuinely amazed someone identifying with the Left would find these ideas interesting, and if so, they're going to love the deep philosophical musings on leftism offered by the likes of Tucker Carlson and Ron de Sanctis!

sph 3y ago

As a non American, the dichotomy that is all the rage nowadays is two camps whose position is literally just "we hate everything the other side loves". The point of Kaczynski is that both camps are mostly composed of middle-class Western academics living a sheltered life that are deciding who is socially accepted and who need to be cancelled. Our culture wars are not minorities shouting for a better life, our culture war is made of middle-class white people getting offended on behalf of minorities. They are no Martin Luther King, no Malcolm X, they just are posers that are making the racial (and gender and sexual) divide even worse than it is, by polarising or alienating the silent neutral majority. This is a longer argument that's put more eloquently in the manifesto than I could ever write on a comment box.

watwut 3y ago
You don't know much about Martin Luther King, do you?
- Alenycus 3y ago
  > You don't know much about Martin Luther King, do you?
  - watwut 3y ago
    Definitely a bit more then someone who is trying to use his name in the above context.
katamarimambo 3y ago
Kaczynski was a middle-class Western academic who tried to literally cancel the lives of those he deemed unacceptable, which included people from both camps. Thank god there's a divide, otherwise I would be obliged to agree with you.

notahacker 3y ago

And most of his arguments about the Left specifically is the generic list of conservative/right-wing characterisations of the Left (obviously the rest of his philosophy has little to do with conservatism, mainstream or otherwise!). Leftists hate strength and rationality. Leftists only pretend to care about minorities. Leftists are self-hating losers who are afraid of competition Genuinely amazed someone identifying with the Left would find these ideas interesting, and if so, they're going to love the deep philosophical musings on leftism offered by the likes of Tucker Carlson and Ron de Sanctis!