Editing Totalizing Ideologies (section)

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=== 2020 ===

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|content=If you want to fight that with me, I’m in. But it requires more subtlety. And for such a simple point, this is getting needlessly tedious. I think I’ve been clear enough that I don’t need to come back to this. Happy to read what you want to say of course. 

All best,
Eric
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|content=I reached some kind of an unexpected impasse with many people I admire now condescending to me. And it’s pissing me off.

Gad et. al.: You’ve chosen a bad tactic. “Hijab is a symbol of oppression.” is too simplistic. Are you winning hearts and minds with this? No. You’re losing.
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|content=Many of you have picked bad terms for a set of arguments:

Ethnonationalism</br>
Identity Politics</br>
[[Free Speech|Free Speech Absolutism]]</br>
Political Correctness</br>
Rationality v Bullshit</br>
Tribalism

Okay. Why aren’t they winning? Because they‘re meretricious framings, way too simplistic and thus losers.
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|content=I‘m on the same side of many if not all of these points with you but with a massive disagreement in tactics. If you frame one issue like FGM too simplistically you‘re going to get hit with the obvious point about male circumscision. Against tribalism? You chase away all cultures.
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|content=This saddles many of us w/ a set of “convenience products” that don’t really work. Very simple bumper sticker ideas that are incredibly powerful rhetorically...right up until they backfire due to:

A) Exceptions invalidating the rule</br>
B) Inconsistency in application

So they lose.
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|content=Hijab is a simple symbol of oppression? What about churches that ask us to cover before entering or online Jewish modesty clothing retailers. Don’t like Political Correctness? Then why do you say “The N-word” but joke about other groups. Against “identity politics”? In Tibet too?
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|content=If you want the spirit of [[Free Speech|free speech absolutism]] you have to admit to some restrictions or you lose [[Free Speech|free speech]] due to the egregious corner cases you will encounter. I don’t want to see swastikas, but I have to admit they crop up in cultural non-Nazi contexts. That’s reality.
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|content=Normally I’ve bitten my tongue for years. I feel like I got here late to a party and everyone had chosen the terms of engagement. But those don’t work because they are too open to charges of bias when their radical simplicity doesn’t capture the counter examples easily produced.
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|content=Snakes are tetrapods yet don’t seem to have 4 limbs. Echidna lay eggs but are clearly mammals. These aren’t nitpicks. They point out that the theories “Tetrapods are defined by having 4 external limbs.” Or “Mammals are furry and give live birth.” are simply *unsalvageably* wrong.
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|content=You are an evolutionary guy Gad. So presumably I don’t have to tell you You don’t get to define tetrapods by how many limbs most have and then just claim that there are exceptions! That’s bad theory. Same with Hijab. It *can* be a symbol of oppression. It may *generally* be one!!
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|content=But the theory is off. You open yourself up to the obvious line of attack “My friend Aisha just did X,Y,Z and she loves being a Hijabi.” I’m thinking of such a person in my past right now. Counter examples are meaningful for good reason. They aren’t an ‘epsilon’ term in any way.
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|content=A proper theory of oppression by Islamic veiling and covering must take into account: 

Christian Covering</br>
Jewish Orthodox Modesty-wear</br>
Coercion both explicit and implicit</br>
Brainwashing vs Projection</br>
Niqab vs Headscarves</br>
Etc.

and no one wants to do it. So it gets oversimplified.
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|content=So forgive me. I still think we‘re fighting the same BS with veiling &amp; covering as control &amp; subjugation, but we are *tactically* divided, as we are on almost all the terms of art in this. You‘re going to continue to get hounded over the corner cases because of oversimplifying.
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|content=And please don’t condesend to me. The great danger with Islam today isn’t the Hijab. Or any of a host or thorny issues. It’s that forms of Islam together with North Korea are among the few potent remaining totalizing forces left in the 🌎. It’s [[Totalizing Ideologies|*totalizing*]] that must be fought.
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|content=I would be against [[Totalizing Ideologies|World totalitarian Judaism]] if it existed. But it does not. I was against [[Totalizing Ideologies|imperial totalitarian communism]], but I don’t see much left. If there were [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalitarian Prius owners]] I’d be opposed to them. I’d much rather fight [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing beliefs]] than all these proxies.
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|content=My problems with Islam all stem from its desire to provide way way too many answers and entertain too few questions from outside. Honor killings, FGM, religious message killings, etc are coming from a [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing cultural and belief system]].
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|content=No. Tolerance of [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing ideology]] is fueling excuses. Madness isn’t made better if it co-travels with religion.

Religion isn’t the problem. France isn’t the problem. Madness and excuse making (like this) for [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing thinking]] is fueling the problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/opinion/france-terrorism-muslims.html
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=== 2021 ===

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|content=God bless America. From Left to Right and all of us somewhere else or in between.
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|content=To my followers who put their faith in Donald Trump. In the Kraken. In Lin Wood. In Sidney Powell. In January 6th. In Benford’s law. Etc.

Thank you for your trust. I’d like to think you put up w/ me because you knew I loved this country and hated its swamp. Now I need your help.
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|content=You cannot board the Trump Train. No matter how many times he sticks it to your tormentors. I know it’s tempting when you can’t stand the DNC.

He remains an existential risk to America and its values. We are very particular about how we take out the trash: this is anti-American.
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|timestamp=10:31 AM · Jan 7, 2021
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|content=We have to rebuild trust in each other. I have attempted to bridge this chasm for four years and I’m utterly torn apart from the hatred from my traditional side of the aisle and the abuse from the far right.

Trump has conceded.

Question: will you accept my outstretched hand?
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|content=I believe I am the only member of my group of podcasters who has forgone the income from contributions and merchandise to stand apart from all this until the election was over just in case anything went wrong. Likely a meaningless gesture, but it will be worth it if you join me.
|timestamp=10:31 AM · Jan 7, 2021
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|content=True I didn’t vote for Biden, but that is only because I live in California. But I have stood with you against Critical Race Theory, the insane immigration policy, the intolerance of [[Totalizing Ideologies|Totalizing forms of Islam]]. Etc

Trump was always a crazy risk. Yet I understood why you took it.
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|content=Here is my ask: can you be big enough to close this loop and say “Eric you repeatedly tried to warn us brother to brother with our best interests at heart about what just happened when we told you to relax. Perhaps you were right that Trump was an existential risk to the US.”
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|content=There is a way back to the country we both love. I believe you were wrong about Trump, and have always said so, but you were right about many things and I’d like to think the lost friends and abuse were worth it. I’d like to think I made an investment in us rather than a mistake.
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|content=It would be an honor to accept that gesture as closure. Please tell me I bet correctly defending a bunch of patriots with my best interests at heart as well and that I have a seat at your family table. There remains a swamp to be drained. And I believe in you, me &amp; our country.🙏
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=== 2022 ===

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|content=Lastly, I want to say what should be obvious: many of the people most threatened by terror, are those standing up for freedom of expression from WITHIN the groups having a problem with [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing ideology]] and terror. Search in Farsi/Arabic. That is real bravery &amp; we need to help.
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|content=I am increasingly seeing @twitter in a different light: as a company that is willfully physically endangering those that do not share the Revolutionary politics of its staff and management.

What if selective application of its capricious terms of service is precursor to murder?
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|content=Why is open glorification of attempted murder &amp; mayhem against an author by those mocking “freedom of expression” all over Twitter…just so long as it is not written in English and barely concealed with a Google Translate button? Am I wrong about this? It seems to be everywhere:
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|content=Keep in mind that while this kind of posting is flowing everywhere around you on Twitter, the account you are reading now is heavily throttled.

Bottom Line: This isn’t up to @twitter as “a private company that can do whatever it wants”. This is *facilitating* violence to come.
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=== 2024 ===

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|content=For the rest of you, I know @DouglasKMurray rather well. Let me tell you about his character. 

He isn’t racist and doesn’t discriminate.

That is not to say that his heart is only filled with sunshine and sweetness mind you; I can assure you that he despises all [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing ideologies]] that seek to exploit European tolerance and work for the subversion and destruction of free Western market democracies.

Race, religion and national origin have absolutely nothing to do with it. He’s simply against [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing ideology]]. If totalitarian Methodists, Radical Inuits, Militant Bhutanese or Genocidal Laplanders ever start chanting from “From the Thames, to Cliffs of Dover, the Free UK’s days are over.” Or “Decolonize Bath!” I can assure you he will fight them tooth and nail with equal vigor. 

Hope that clarifies things. Good night all.
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|content=This guy?? The one being interviewed before the riots, trying to anticipate what was coming in order to stop it *before* it happened??? Ha ha ha ha……good one. 

For a second I thought you were serious. Totally fell for it.
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|content=This is Douglas Murray:  Eton and Oxford (of course), Associate Editor of The Spectator magazine, and a racist piece of shit calling for civil war. Typical of the incompetent Tory rabble who broke Britain.
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=== 2025 ===

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|content=“Absolute pluralism” does not exist. Pluralism exists. Why are people trying to find a contradiction? I just deeply don’t get the confusion. There is no paradox.

Common sense Tolerance forces intolerance of those who refuse to extend tolerance. It’s not like the world collapses in a division by zero error. It’s just part of the full definition.
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|content=To remain pluralistic, a society is forced to deny pluralism to all [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing ideologies]], despite its instinct to extend it.
|timestamp=2:45 PM · Jul 29, 2025
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|content=My claim is that there is no 'paradox' here. This is fundamentally what pluralism means. Extending pluralism to that which seeks to destroy pluralism is not pluralism.

It just MEANS "Pluralism for pluralists." It doesn't mean "Dear totalists, let us invite you in to destroy us."
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|timestamp=3:23 PM · Jul 29, 2025
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