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The rest of us are such bullies...
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I had a conversation with my conservative neighbor who legitimately made this argument. He was saying that it's the left's fault for telling all these young conservative men that they're Nazis, which makes those poor impressionable young men go "well if you're going to call me a fascist then I'm going to fascist even harder just to spite you."
It does, though. It doesn't have to make sense to you, but it's natural for people to say "who welcomes me? Who attacks me?" And go with those who welcome them. Is it simplistic? Sure. But either you learn how to take on the educational and emotional burden of reaching out, or you have extra enemies.
Yeah, I know when I'm just hanging out and meet a bunch of nazis talking about how jews and blacks need to be exterminated, I feel welcomed and understood.
They were racist before, they're comfortable because they finally get to take off their masks, or hoods in this case.
It's natural for you to say "who welcomes me? Who attacks me?" and go with those who welcome you.
That doesn't make it effective at making the overall situation better.
Which is how Hitler recruited the brownshirts.
You'd think people would learn this pattern as it's repeated constantly through history, but alas.
Yep. And it is easily rationalized as doing the right thing, until its too late to do differently.