It's the Day's Day of Days! Because "Come home with me, little Matty Groves, come home with me tonight! Come home with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light!"
If it feels like you're being gaslit by Muir here, well, you are.
I defer to Jean-Paul Sartre...
"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 has
passed."
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Sarte was accurately describing the phenomenon of the meme-making, "based", edgelord culture of the internet reactionary right.
ReplyDeleteBut I do not believe Muir and his brand of right-winger is covered by Sarte's description AT ALL. I believe these people are absolutely, 150 percent sincere. They truly have no cognizance of their hypocrisy.
My brain has accepted this, but my heart never will. Or is it the other way around? I don't even know anymore.
On some subjects, sure. But on issues like this? Here, Muir is just playing with the goalposts to "own the libs".
DeleteAgree to disagree. I don't believe Muir's brand of right-winger has any cognizance that they're moving the goalposts, unlike the trolls and shitposters who snigger like schoolboys in full awareness that that's what they're doing.
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