[Image Description]: This is a tweet from the account @tragicgay. The tweet reads: "This Sartre quote on anti semites continues to be more accurate an assessment of the alt right online than 90% of what's written on them".
The tweet is accompanied by an image of a page from Jean-Paul Sartre's essay Anti-Semite and Jew with a highlighted portion. The highlighted portion reads: "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
I think parts of this quote describe the argument style of a larger group of people rather than simply the alt-right.
E. Added words for clarity.
E.2. Just to clarify, I think it is a false equivalence to compare other groups with the alt-right but the ridiculousness of the centre-left is masked and dilluted by its accepted reasonableness.
bperki8 on April 17th, 2017 at 12:39 UTC »
[Image Description]: This is a tweet from the account @tragicgay. The tweet reads: "This Sartre quote on anti semites continues to be more accurate an assessment of the alt right online than 90% of what's written on them".
The tweet is accompanied by an image of a page from Jean-Paul Sartre's essay Anti-Semite and Jew with a highlighted portion. The highlighted portion reads: "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
EuropoBob on April 17th, 2017 at 13:01 UTC »
I think parts of this quote describe the argument style of a larger group of people rather than simply the alt-right.
E. Added words for clarity.
E.2. Just to clarify, I think it is a false equivalence to compare other groups with the alt-right but the ridiculousness of the centre-left is masked and dilluted by its accepted reasonableness.
dangolo on April 17th, 2017 at 15:31 UTC »
See, trolls have been unoriginal bullshitters for centuries.