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As somebody who suffered from increasingly totalitarian "woke" ideology in my former workplace, I understand how critical regular "reality checks" are. This community is for people who wish to engage with each other and create a community of support to help make sense out of the chaos.
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15 hours ago

Dr. Bennett/Bennett's Phylactery (aka Kevin Dolan of the EXIT group) offers his usual hard-hitting take. His basic position is that the forces contending for control cannot coexist (lol, the bumper sticker), that at the fundamental level this is a fight over the very nature of Reality, and that that means tough times ahead, including the imposition--under the color of law--of various measures and policies. (Note the ongoing parsing of the use of force and power vs. the use of violence.)

Also worth considering is that a take like this points to how much variety there is within a broad label like "the Right." Dolan's angle is one of uncountable positions within the domain we call "Right."

There's truth here. There's truth across so many perspectives. This is why we try to cast such a wide net!

"Things like “systemic racism” and “the gender pay gap” are fake and imaginary. It takes about 15 minutes to “debate” what facts there are to debate.

"As with trans identity, we are attempting to disprove the existence of a spook — an evil miasma that is the cause of all manner of social ills, but one that is beyond all powers of human empirical detection, and can only be proven tautologically...Either the unequal outcomes are the result of a millennia-long, billions-strong global conspiracy with no defectors ever until 1950, or they are the result of naturally occurring group differences.

"A society cannot be organized with both of these perspectives in view. People who hold the one set of beliefs cannot tolerate being governed by the other. ...

"The purpose of Charlie’s rhetoric was to persuade the persuadable from the politically-relevant center, and to give the mainstream Right the moral confidence to demand action — thereby achieving political outcomes which could be imposed upon the incorrigible leftist holdouts, in an orderly and lawful and broadly-acceptable way.

"And that is why they shot him. ...

"...the Right (or the faction of sanity, of reality, of nature) has a unique opportunity to make use of this moment, and the proper course of action is not more dialogue, and it is not a renunciation of force.

"We have got to immediately discard the idea that our moral authority derives from our refusal to exercise power. That is not what makes us the Good Guys.

"What makes us the Good Guys is that we are not at war with God and reality.

"Because leftism is a set of obvious lies and absurdities, leftists have to shatter people psychologically in order to rule them. Mao and Stalin had to terrorize their people into epistemic exhaustion and collapse, so that they could be made to confess, with feeling, that two and two make five. For us, the question is whether a man is a woman, if the Party says he is.

"By contrast: Lee Kwan Yew, Franco, and Pinochet were authoritarians who brooked no challenge to their power — but because they were not at war with human nature, they did not need their people to accept and mouth absurdities. They did not need to batter down the mind of every citizen to root out the will and capacity for reason, and force them to inform on one another for any relapse toward sanity.

"Rightists also don’t rely on an army of criminal mutants to seize power. Every leftist leader since Robespierre has recognized how much they depend on the spiteful, the warped, the stunted, and the insane — because that’s who is willing to join a fanatical crusade against reality. ...

"Because [Kirk] spoke basic truths embraced by millions of Americans — your dad, your uncles, and certainly all of your ancestors — these people told us (in public, under their real names) that Charlie Kirk deserved to have his throat opened in front of his children.

"They (correctly) intuit that no accommodation between our perspectives is possible — and because they are at war with reality, any further dialogue (of Charlie’s kind, on the facts) can only erode their support and weaken their position. ...

"...to this (apparently enormous) cohort of die-hards, there is nothing else to say. Somebody has to win, and it needs to be the side that is not insane. ...

"...the choice is not between conflict and conciliation — the choice is between organized and limited conflict conducted by duly elected authorities under color of law, or a disorganized and unlimited conflict conducted by amateurs under no legitimating or restraining authority. ...

"Whatever happens, we will likely live in an uncomfortable superposition of crisis and normalcy for the better part of the next decade."

https://blog.exitgroup.us/p/what-is-there-to-talk-about

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