tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post6146399904129063172..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Tyler Durden: "Les Deplorables"Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-42457724260659960502016-09-16T14:05:44.129-04:002016-09-16T14:05:44.129-04:00yeah yeah yeah...I totally feel ya on this. I don&...yeah yeah yeah...I totally feel ya on this. I don't disagree with anything you say.<br /><br />In fact, I wish you'd say that stuff to me like once a week... I try to keep sight of it, but it's really hard for me. <br /><br />I really do think--and have long thought--that this is an important dynamic in the disagreement. There are racists out there, as well as people who aren't Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-51992161293609682872016-09-16T11:35:07.929-04:002016-09-16T11:35:07.929-04:00It makes sense that crying wolf about these things...It makes sense that crying wolf about these things is not helpful to advancing progressive (or "pro-equality") ideals. I agree with you there. I guess I am just skeptical that the people crying wolf are as powerful or as numerous as gets portrayed by people like TD. And that's what really set me off about that excerpt. TD says that there's a "new progressive algorithm"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-56208792358036473712016-09-16T07:56:36.510-04:002016-09-16T07:56:36.510-04:00Yeah, as soon as you point out that he's doing...Yeah, as soon as you point out that he's doing the same in reverse, I see that that's right...though in this particular quote he references "progressive...condescension"...which isn't like saying "half"...it's unquantified. However it happens, whatever percentage is responsible, there's definitely condescension coming from that general direction, I'd Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-17953546264951559282016-09-15T23:56:29.950-04:002016-09-15T23:56:29.950-04:00Tyler Durden sounds like he's painting with a ...Tyler Durden sounds like he's painting with a very broad brush concerning "progressives" and making extremely charitable assumptions about Trump and his supporters. This seems like the error of the people he's complaining about in reverse. Not all or even most progressives are the silly types you have seemed very angry about lately. As someone whose father is a Muslim immigrant Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com