Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

One year anniversary of this exchange:

There was a great article about it

This is an amazing tweet. Stripped of the fancy language it says “I was factually incorrect, but since that fact benefits my enemy you were wrong to point it out”. Bureaucratic procedural inaccuracy is a hell of a way to say “thing I completely made up”. Haus is explicitly promoting the debate-as-war paradigm. You can’t point out factual inaccuracies on your own side, because that just cedes ground to the Nazis! Who cares whether it’s true that you don’t have to show ID to vote! The only correct action is to yell at the Nazi, no matter what!5

This is wrong. It’s wrong on a factual level - Nazis sometimes do format their webcomics very effectively. We can tell they do because people from all over the political spectrum use StoneToss comics as meme formats. It’s also wrong on a strategic level. If neo-Nazi propaganda is working, it seems like we should talk about it. We should care about figuring out why, and effectively countering it. Putting your head in the sand and pretending it isn’t happening is no way to win.

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Also one of the reasons leftists apparently hate Basil so much is because he made the Walmart tweet lol