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I think it’s a very good look when the people you complain about are racists.
by prinny_ 19d ago
I think it’s a very good look when the people you complain about are racists.
- IslandRebel 19d ago[flagged]
- boredpudding 19d agoThere's a difference between when people have a platform. Made a mistake 10 years ago? Fine. But that's very different than using your huge platform today to spread your hate. Pretending those two are the same is dangerous. One of them does actual harm today.
- IslandRebel 19d ago[flagged]
- drewbeck 19d ago> Someone will dig through some old forums/news group/twitter posts that someone made and use that as a stick to beat them with. This is not about digging up some old careless post. It’s about his current views which he posts proudly online. I’ll note your post pulls a classic trick: - these views are not that important to who he is - anyway even if he did hold those views it’s not that big of a deal - but also I agree with those views (even tho I am but a humble, reasonable centrist)
- IslandRebel 19d ago[flagged]
- dofm 19d ago> Secondly, constantly berating him for having the wrong opinions and not explaining why those opinions are wrong are more likely to entrench his positions and anyone that is sympathetic to those opinions. People have tried that. DHH is at best a pseudo-intellectual troll.
- IslandRebel 19d ago[flagged]
- dofm 19d agoI do indeed accuse him of being a pseudo-intellectual troll, and that is the kindest interpretation of things he has actually written, including “As I Remember London”, which is creepy, deliberately misleading, has clear white-nationalist subtext and openly supports a crooked bigoted thug.
- IslandRebel 19d ago[flagged]
- dofm 19d agoNope, sorry. There are things in that article that are really a long way beyond having been deceived. They cannot and must not be minimised in that way. And nobody who criticises them should feel any blame if he doubles down; he is a wealthy privileged white man who is solely responsible for the things he says.
- IslandRebel 19d ago> There are things in that article that are really a long way beyond having been deceived I don't believe so. Can you explain exactly how it is impossible he is deceived? > They cannot and must not be minimised in that way. Why not? To me what I described is what fits 100%. You just asserting that is the case hasn't explained why I might be incorrect. You clearly haven't taken what I've explained to you on board at all. I suggest you bother checking out any of how this occurs in any other conspiracy circles, e.g., UFOs or just watching something that promotes conspiracy theories, such as Hunting Hitler (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5248878/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5248878/). It's the same mechanism, just a different form. > And nobody who criticises them should feel any blame if he doubles down; he is a wealthy privileged white man who is solely responsible for the things he says. I am not saying people should feel blame for criticising him. I am saying that should be blamed for brow-beating him. Are you telling me he cannot be deceived because he is wealthy? Plenty of wealthy and privileged people are/have been deceived.
- brazukadev 19d agoWhy are you comparing someone that said a mild anti-abort thing to DHH tho? can you describe with your words what is DHH main talking points? mild racism? mild eugenics?
- IslandRebel 19d ago[flagged]
- brazukadev 19d agoYou don't see anything wrong with his posts because you hold similar beliefs, you are just putting yourself in the center, which is typical.
- IslandRebel 19d ago[flagged]
- polymer8563 19d agototally the same thing guys! comparison is my passion!
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- yaakushi 19d agoNo idea who Jeff Geerling is, but about Rossman: He has his opinion about trans people. Some people have the opinion that he is a bigot as a consequence of that. I don't see the issue with that? Also, it's not like he'll lose his platform or his company over that, so I doubly don't see the issue here?
- 740273730191 19d ago[flagged]
- archerx 19d ago[flagged]
- dofm 19d agoDHH is pretty evidently racist in a lazily-disguised form, and he sounds a lot like a wealthy 1930s pro-Nazi pseudointellectual when he spouts off. He's also spoken in favour of an agitator who appears intent on sparking a race-and-religion-driven civil inflagration in the UK. Pretty solidly applicable terms, I am sorry to say. Maybe no worse than JD Vance, Pete Hegseth or Trump, but then none of those people are figuratively one of our own.
- ramon156 19d agothey arent being called racist, they are racist. not a small difference there.
- archerx 19d ago[flagged]
- simianparrot 19d agoThe racist accusation has been overused so much it's not just having diminishing returns, it's having no effect. If you can't argue someone's point but just throw labels at them, you are going to lose because the labels lose value the more broadly you apply them. And that will allow the real racists to walk right through your gates because you can no longer identify them when everyone you don't like is a racist.
- malmz 19d agoThis is the real racist, walking through the gate.
- jakelazaroff 18d agoThe label pretty obviously fits in this case though? No one is calling DHH racist as some sort of slur; they're just describing his system of beliefs.