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|content=Many of you have picked bad terms for a set of arguments:
|content=Many of you have picked bad terms for a set of arguments:


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


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|content=This saddles many of us w/ a set of ā€œconvenience productsā€ that donā€™t really work. Very simple bumper sticker ideas that are incredibly powerful rhetorically...right up until they backfire due to:
|content=This saddles many of us w/ a set of ā€œconvenience productsā€ that donā€™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
A) Exceptions invalidating the rule</br>
B) Inconsistency in application
B) Inconsistency in application


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|content=If you want the spirit of free speech absolutism you have to admit to some restrictions or you lose free speech due to the egregious corner cases you will encounter. I donā€™t want to see swastikas, but I have to admit they crop up in cultural non-Nazi contexts. Thatā€™s reality.
|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 donā€™t want to see swastikas, but I have to admit they crop up in cultural non-Nazi contexts. Thatā€™s reality.
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|content=A proper theory of oppression by Islamic veiling and covering must take into account: Ā 
|content=A proper theory of oppression by Islamic veiling and covering must take into account: Ā 


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


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|content=And please donā€™t condesend to me. The great danger with Islam today isnā€™t the Hijab. Or any of a host or thorny issues. Itā€™s that forms of Islam together with North Korea are among the few potent remaining totalizing forces left in the šŸŒŽ. Itā€™s *totalizing* that must be fought.
|content=And please donā€™t condesend to me. The great danger with Islam today isnā€™t the Hijab. Or any of a host or thorny issues. Itā€™s that forms of Islam together with North Korea are among the few potent remaining totalizing forces left in the šŸŒŽ. Itā€™s [[Totalizing Ideologies|*totalizing*]] that must be fought.
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|content=I would be against World totalitarian Judaism if it existed. But it does not. I was against imperial totalitarian communism, but I donā€™t see much left. If there were totalitarian Prius owners Iā€™d be opposed to them. Iā€™d much rather fight totalizing beliefs than all these proxies.
|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 donā€™t see much left. If there were [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalitarian Prius owners]] Iā€™d be opposed to them. Iā€™d much rather fight [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing beliefs]] than all these proxies.
|timestamp=5:40 PM Ā· Mar 2, 2020
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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 cultural and belief system.
|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 isnā€™t made better if it co-travels with religion.
Religion isnā€™t the problem. France isnā€™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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Thank you for your trust. Iā€™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.
Thank you for your trust. Iā€™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 itā€™s tempting when you canā€™t stand the DNC.


We have to rebuild trust in each other. I have attempted to bridge this chasm for four years and Iā€™m utterly torn apart from the hatred from my traditional side of the aisle and the abuse from the far right.
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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|content=We have to rebuild trust in each other. I have attempted to bridge this chasm for four years and Iā€™m utterly torn apart from the hatred from my traditional side of the aisle and the abuse from the far right.


Trump has conceded.
Trump has conceded.


Question: will you accept my outstretched hand?
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 Ā· Jan 7, 2021
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|content=True I didnā€™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 ā€œEric 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.ā€
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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 Iā€™d like to think the lost friends and abuse were worth it. Iā€™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.šŸ™
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|timestamp=10:31 AM Ā· Jan 7, 2021
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=== 2022 ===


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.
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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.


True I didnā€™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 forms of Islam'''. Etc
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 ā€œfreedom of expressionā€ all over Twitterā€¦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.
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Bottom Line: This isnā€™t up to @twitter as ā€œa private company that can do whatever it wantsā€. This is *facilitating* violence to come.
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|content=For the rest of you, I know @DouglasKMurray rather well. Let me tell you about his character. Ā 


Trump was always a crazy risk. Yet I understood why you took it.
He isnā€™t racist and doesnā€™t discriminate.


Here is my ask: can you be big enough to close this loop and say ā€œEric 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.ā€
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.


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 Iā€™d like to think the lost friends and abuse were worth it. Iā€™d like to think I made an investment in us rather than a mistake.
Race, religion and national origin have absolutely nothing to do with it. Heā€™s simply against [[Totalizing Ideologies|totalizing ideology]]. If totalitarian Methodists, Radical Inuits, Militant Bhutanese or Genocidal Laplanders ever start chanting from ā€œFrom the Thames, to Cliffs of Dover, the Free UKā€™s days are over.ā€ Or ā€œDecolonize Bath!ā€ I can assure you he will fight them tooth and nail with equal vigor. Ā 


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 & our country.šŸ™
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 haā€¦ā€¦good one. Ā 


God bless America. From Left to Right and all of us somewhere else or in between.
For a second I thought you were serious. Totally fell for it.
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|content=This is Douglas Murray:Ā  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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|content=ā€œAbsolute pluralismā€ does not exist. Pluralism exists. Why are people trying to find a contradiction? I just deeply donā€™t get the confusion. There is no paradox.
|content=ā€œAbsolute pluralismā€ does not exist. Pluralism exists. Why are people trying to find a contradiction? I just deeply donā€™t get the confusion. There is no paradox.


Common sense Tolerance forces intolerance of those who refuse to extend tolerance. Itā€™s not like the world collapses in a division by zero error. Itā€™s just part of the full definition.
Common sense Tolerance forces intolerance of those who refuse to extend tolerance. Itā€™s not like the world collapses in a division by zero error. Itā€™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.
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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.


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It just MEANS "Pluralism for pluralists." It doesn't mean "Dear totalists, let us invite you in to destroy us."
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