I guess I’m just going to note the irony here. You understand opposition to right wing reactionary arguments not as a conscious and fully informed rejection of values in favor of better ones, but as a fearful avoidance and lack of understanding, impulse for control and enforced through mechanically repeated phrases.
This, and god is it weird that I have to say this out loud to someone I am assuming is an adult, but this is not what good faith engagement with a view you disagree with looks like. It’s childish reduction of a view to a level of caricature that you feel comfortable engaging with. Instead of bad faith mischaractization of views you don’t like under the guise of just joking around, I might recommend looking up the philosophical concept of principle of charity, which may enable you to post more thoughtful & constructive comments.
I guess I’m just going to note the irony here. You understand opposition to right wing reactionary arguments not as a conscious and fully informed rejection of values in favor of better ones, but as a fearful avoidance and lack of understanding, impulse for control and enforced through mechanically repeated phrases.
This, and god is it weird that I have to say this out loud to someone I am assuming is an adult, but this is not what good faith engagement with a view you disagree with looks like. It’s childish reduction of a view to a level of caricature that you feel comfortable engaging with. Instead of bad faith mischaractization of views you don’t like under the guise of just joking around, I might recommend looking up the philosophical concept of principle of charity, which may enable you to post more thoughtful & constructive comments.