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this is an excerpt (page XX) from #1990_TheNewWorldOrder [site archive] by #IRLConspiracistAnthonyRalphEpperson [Wikipedia]
Context #TheoryDeclinism #_Focal
Supplementary the passage includes the conflation of #PoliticsFascismNazi and #PoliticsSocialism #MagazineUSPacificStandardNoahBerlatsky "the conflation of alt-right Nazis with a supposed 'alt-left' gives people like President Donald Trump and former Breitbart Chairman Steve Bannon rhetorical cover to slime their critics as the 'real fascists.' Perhaps even worse, claiming that the left is especially prone to fascist tendencies allows folks on other parts of the political spectrum to ignore their own complicity when actual fascism crawls out of the mud. The main argument for Horseshoe Theory is that both the far left and the far right are opposed to the centrist, neoliberal/capitalist status quo. Communists and fascists in the 1930s criticized the aging imperial democracies of Britain, France, and the United States as weak, corrupt, and--post-Great Depression--as hurtling toward a final collapse. More recently, the argument goes, left-wing radicals opposed centrist Hillary Clinton and France's Emmanuel Macron. By doing so, they offered de facto (and sometimes more than de facto) aid to racist, nationalist opponents like Trump and Marine Le Pen. We are told that left and right both want to destroy democratic norms and the sensible center. Therefore, Horseshoe Theory says, they work together. ... the anti-left rhetoric around political correctness--in which student left protesters with minimal power are presented as the 'real' totalitarians--is widely popular among figures as diverse as Angela Nagle, Jonah Goldberg, Chait, David Frum, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Trump himself. When you demonize leftists, it's the fascists who benefit--and there are a lot of people in American politics, of every political stripe, who like to demonize leftists." https://psmag.com/social-justice/an-end-to-horseshoe-theory #TheoryHorseshoe #IRLPhilosopherJeanPierreFaye #1939_MolotovRibbentropPact #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREEmmanuelMacron #PoliticsCentrism #PoliticsCommunism #PoliticsFascism #TauntLeftThe #IRLAuthorAngelaNagle #IRLActivistChelseaManning #IRLCommentatorJonathanChait #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesRossDouthat #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJoeManchin #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPLisaMurkowski #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJeffSessions #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPaulRyan #OrgUSFedFBI #TheoryMarxism i.e. #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanardJudeoBolshevism #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #PoliticallyCorrectPC #IRLJournalistJonahGoldberg #IRLCommentatorDavidFrum #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner #TheoryFishHook #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostSalenaZito #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyDickDurbin #MagazineUSJacobinConnorKilpatrick http://v2.jacobinmag.com/author/connor-kilpatrick #OrgClassifPPFRRassemblementNationalRNMarineLePen #MagazineUSGrist: https://grist.org/climate/grist-acquisition-pacific-standard/
Context #TheoryDeclinism #_Focal
Supplementary the passage includes the conflation of #PoliticsFascismNazi and #PoliticsSocialism #MagazineUSPacificStandardNoahBerlatsky "the conflation of alt-right Nazis with a supposed 'alt-left' gives people like President Donald Trump and former Breitbart Chairman Steve Bannon rhetorical cover to slime their critics as the 'real fascists.' Perhaps even worse, claiming that the left is especially prone to fascist tendencies allows folks on other parts of the political spectrum to ignore their own complicity when actual fascism crawls out of the mud. The main argument for Horseshoe Theory is that both the far left and the far right are opposed to the centrist, neoliberal/capitalist status quo. Communists and fascists in the 1930s criticized the aging imperial democracies of Britain, France, and the United States as weak, corrupt, and--post-Great Depression--as hurtling toward a final collapse. More recently, the argument goes, left-wing radicals opposed centrist Hillary Clinton and France's Emmanuel Macron. By doing so, they offered de facto (and sometimes more than de facto) aid to racist, nationalist opponents like Trump and Marine Le Pen. We are told that left and right both want to destroy democratic norms and the sensible center. Therefore, Horseshoe Theory says, they work together. ... the anti-left rhetoric around political correctness--in which student left protesters with minimal power are presented as the 'real' totalitarians--is widely popular among figures as diverse as Angela Nagle, Jonah Goldberg, Chait, David Frum, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Trump himself. When you demonize leftists, it's the fascists who benefit--and there are a lot of people in American politics, of every political stripe, who like to demonize leftists." https://psmag.com/social-justice/an-end-to-horseshoe-theory #TheoryHorseshoe #IRLPhilosopherJeanPierreFaye #1939_MolotovRibbentropPact #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREEmmanuelMacron #PoliticsCentrism #PoliticsCommunism #PoliticsFascism #TauntLeftThe #IRLAuthorAngelaNagle #IRLActivistChelseaManning #IRLCommentatorJonathanChait #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesRossDouthat #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJoeManchin #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPLisaMurkowski #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJeffSessions #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPaulRyan #OrgUSFedFBI #TheoryMarxism i.e. #OtheringHateAntisemiticCanardJudeoBolshevism #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #PoliticallyCorrectPC #IRLJournalistJonahGoldberg #IRLCommentatorDavidFrum #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner #TheoryFishHook #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostSalenaZito #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyDickDurbin #MagazineUSJacobinConnorKilpatrick http://v2.jacobinmag.com/author/connor-kilpatrick #OrgClassifPPFRRassemblementNationalRNMarineLePen #MagazineUSGrist: https://grist.org/climate/grist-acquisition-pacific-standard/
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Supplementary "An essential feature of the rise of Trumpism has been the brazen inversion, that trusty maneuver in which you wield your critics' own values against them -- say, borrowing the language of social justice to argue that the "oppressor" is actually oppressed or suddenly embracing progressive social causes in the service of criticizing Islam. It's a blunt but effective rhetorical confiscation, in which a battle-ready right relishes its ability to seize, inhabit and neutralize the arguments and vocabularies of its opponents, reveling in their continued inability to formulate any sort of answer to the trusty old 'I know you are, but what am I?' There's something similar in the right's gradual appropriation of the word 'alternative' -- an appropriation that, for lack of a stronger claim by disappearing alt-weeklies or leftist publishers, seems to be working. 'They just want me to be the devil because I'm the alternative media,' said the Trump-approved conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, after his recent interview with NBC News's Megyn Kelly. That description might seem incongruous, but it's increasingly standard on the right to characterize sites like Jones's Infowars, The Gateway Pundit and even Breitbart as 'alternative.' Plenty of others have followed suit: Media Matters for America, the left-leaning watchdog group, uses 'alternative' to describe the same constellation of right-wing publishers and pundits that has been referred to as the 'pro-Trump media,' or in the formulation of the BuzzFeed News reporter Charlie Warzel, the 'upside down' -- a reference to the nightmarish parallel dimension of Netflix's camp horror series 'Stranger Things.'" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/magazine/why-the-far-right-wants-to-be-the-new-alternative-culture.html And #IRLPhilosopherSlavojZizek #OrgUKTheOxfordUnionSociety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545x4EldHlg&t=1830s (1 January 2019) #IRLAuthorAngelaNagle #2017_KillAllNormies #CatchcryAltRightCounterCulture #IRLScholarErvingGoffman's #TheorySociologyDramaturgyBehaviourBackStage #TheoryMaterialismChristian i.e. "Christians have affirmed the existence of the soul, its survival of death and its re-embodiment at the final resurrection. In recent decades, however, there has been a growth in the number of Christian scholars who deny the existence of the soul and affirm some form of materialism." https://christianscholars.com/the-prospect-of-christian-materialism/
Supplementary "An essential feature of the rise of Trumpism has been the brazen inversion, that trusty maneuver in which you wield your critics' own values against them -- say, borrowing the language of social justice to argue that the "oppressor" is actually oppressed or suddenly embracing progressive social causes in the service of criticizing Islam. It's a blunt but effective rhetorical confiscation, in which a battle-ready right relishes its ability to seize, inhabit and neutralize the arguments and vocabularies of its opponents, reveling in their continued inability to formulate any sort of answer to the trusty old 'I know you are, but what am I?' There's something similar in the right's gradual appropriation of the word 'alternative' -- an appropriation that, for lack of a stronger claim by disappearing alt-weeklies or leftist publishers, seems to be working. 'They just want me to be the devil because I'm the alternative media,' said the Trump-approved conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, after his recent interview with NBC News's Megyn Kelly. That description might seem incongruous, but it's increasingly standard on the right to characterize sites like Jones's Infowars, The Gateway Pundit and even Breitbart as 'alternative.' Plenty of others have followed suit: Media Matters for America, the left-leaning watchdog group, uses 'alternative' to describe the same constellation of right-wing publishers and pundits that has been referred to as the 'pro-Trump media,' or in the formulation of the BuzzFeed News reporter Charlie Warzel, the 'upside down' -- a reference to the nightmarish parallel dimension of Netflix's camp horror series 'Stranger Things.'" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/magazine/why-the-far-right-wants-to-be-the-new-alternative-culture.html And #IRLPhilosopherSlavojZizek #OrgUKTheOxfordUnionSociety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545x4EldHlg&t=1830s (1 January 2019) #IRLAuthorAngelaNagle #2017_KillAllNormies #CatchcryAltRightCounterCulture #IRLScholarErvingGoffman's #TheorySociologyDramaturgyBehaviourBackStage #TheoryMaterialismChristian i.e. "Christians have affirmed the existence of the soul, its survival of death and its re-embodiment at the final resurrection. In recent decades, however, there has been a growth in the number of Christian scholars who deny the existence of the soul and affirm some form of materialism." https://christianscholars.com/the-prospect-of-christian-materialism/
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