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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf People Calling You A Nazi Turns You Into A Nazi, The Nazi Was In You All Along
Weiss is, unfortunately, not alone in this sentiment. Weve all been hearing it for years. This Well, if youre going to call me a racist or a sexist or whatever, than I guess I just WILL be that thing! So there! shit.
That. Is. Not. A. Thing.
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This kind of thing plays out very differently when you are dealing with someone who does think racist or misogynistic things but avoids saying them out loud because they dont want to deal with the social consequences of being known as a gross racist or misogynist. Theyre not turning racist or sexist, theyre just deciding that if they have to deal with the social consequences anyway, they may as well just be the asshole they truly are inside. When they see that other people are not getting away with dog whistles, are not getting away with couching their shitty beliefs in scientific racism and evolutionary biology, they decide they dont really need the facade either.
This is supposed to be a threat they are holding common human decency hostage by saying If you all insist upon making it socially unacceptable for me to be a stealth Nazi, I will be a loud and proud Nazi, and you will live to regret it! But its an empty threat because that is who they actually were all along.
That. Is. Not. A. Thing.
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This kind of thing plays out very differently when you are dealing with someone who does think racist or misogynistic things but avoids saying them out loud because they dont want to deal with the social consequences of being known as a gross racist or misogynist. Theyre not turning racist or sexist, theyre just deciding that if they have to deal with the social consequences anyway, they may as well just be the asshole they truly are inside. When they see that other people are not getting away with dog whistles, are not getting away with couching their shitty beliefs in scientific racism and evolutionary biology, they decide they dont really need the facade either.
This is supposed to be a threat they are holding common human decency hostage by saying If you all insist upon making it socially unacceptable for me to be a stealth Nazi, I will be a loud and proud Nazi, and you will live to regret it! But its an empty threat because that is who they actually were all along.
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If People Calling You A Nazi Turns You Into A Nazi, The Nazi Was In You All Along (Original Post)
Soph0571
May 2018
OP
THIS yes!! Same way wypipo's reaction to being called wypipo, as ACCURATELY defined, is confirming.
InAbLuEsTaTe
May 2018
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)1. THIS yes!! Same way wypipo's reaction to being called wypipo, as ACCURATELY defined, is confirming.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)2. What's the accurate definition?
Michael Harriot's?
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)3. Bari Weiss: walking proof that all the smart young people are liberals