the "ironic trolling" and gaslighting we're seeing today from the alt-right is nothing new. Sartre

[soothsayer]

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@Freeyourmindkid
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Oct 26, 2018
1. When the rise of Nazism happened, Nazis were not all 6 foot tall super soldiers who carried guns. They were the nice old lady next door, the house mother who plays with her kids, the store clerk who would give you free stuff, etc.


Bigly Nasty
@GeeJustG
Excellent thread. Also important: the "ironic trolling" and gaslighting we're seeing today from the alt-right is nothing new. Sartre wrote this in 1945:
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3:23 PM · Oct 26, 2018

Sartre describes racists as delighting “in acting in bad faith,” a term which he developed in his broader existential philosophy. “[Bad faith] is a lie you tell yourself,” says McBridge. “You pretend you’re doing something authentically when in fact you’re not. You know it at one level but not at another.”

[empedocles]

1. Very good find. Precisely on target.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Dayum, that's good

This describes magats to a tee.

[maxsolomon]

3. I read this quote a couple months ago. It clarified a lot.

That concept of "Bad Faith" is key to understanding the modern GOP.

They see no reason to act in Good Faith. You saw it in Pompeo's statement, made with a sly grin. Oh, you're hilarious, you fucking seditious traitor.

[coti]

5. Absolutely. It's tied in closely with their defecting

from the social contract.

[coti]

4. Yup. Yup. And yup.

And also because they're cowardly and weak.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

6. And while some of them still pretend to be insulted by it,

most of them are proud to be like Nazis.

[maxsolomon]

7. Most do not understand HOW their behavior rhymes with National Socialism

there is also a serious lack of intellectual rigor or historical knowledge on the Right.

They're playing with matches...

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. True. That too, though, they're proud of. Their anti-intellectualism

is worn as a badge of honor and they're happy to believe the most shallow, glossy, American exceptionalism version of history, despite any evidence to the contrary.

More importantly, many lack lthe ability to judge an argument's logic.

But, whatever truth or reason they may grasp, they're fine with lying about it if they think doing so will advance their power grabbing & money grubbing agendas.