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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe "ironic trolling" and gaslighting we're seeing today from the alt-right is nothing new. Sartre
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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.
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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 youre doing something authentically when in fact youre not. You know it at one level but not at another.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)maxsolomon
(33,326 posts)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
(4,612 posts)from the social contract.
coti
(4,612 posts)And also because they're cowardly and weak.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)most of them are proud to be like Nazis.
maxsolomon
(33,326 posts)there is also a serious lack of intellectual rigor or historical knowledge on the Right.
They're playing with matches...
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)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.