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katakowsj  ·  2312 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Justin Murphy: On turning left into darkness

    I am keenly suspicious of the politics of high-IQ subcultures, precisely because I know there is a trade-off between being correct and caring. Because we care about each other, there are certain things we refuse to see or else refuse to tell each other about what is really true. That’s fine, and perhaps a hard constraint of the types of beings we are on the radical left. But “smart” far-right people, who do not give a fuck about how people feel, they might just be the only ones capable of telling us those truths we need to process if we are ever going to have a sufficent command on reality to generate the systemic transformations we believe in-

Really? To be caring means to not tell someone about their flaws? I thought it was more about paying attention, listening, and looking at positives in lieu of the mistakes a person makes?





b_b  ·  2312 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's such a ridiculous position, because it assumes that people on the right don't care about how others feel. Some of the most charitable people I've ever known are also some of the most conservative. This guy thinks he has some sort of magic power to talk to conservatives, while also assuming that he's talking to people who inherently view the world through a racist, self-centered lens like characters straight out of Ayn Rand. Good luck, dude. You should stay put in your "radical leftist" safety zone.

blackbootz  ·  2312 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you omitted the markup text to format your first paragraph as a quote.

katakowsj  ·  2312 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep. Thanks. Fixed it.