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   Jamison Foser (foser@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 10:11:13 JST Jamison Foser

   every time one of these not-so-secretly-racist "rising star" conservatives is unmasked as *extra* racist I do a quick check and YEP they've been published by The New York Times

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 23:54:40 JST Rich Felker

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     • myrmepropagandist

     @futurebird @foser I so want someone to pwn the NYT and publish the past 10 years of their internal emails exposing everything about how management pushes this stuff.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 23:54:41 JST myrmepropagandist

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     @foser

     Institutions like the New York Times have an intense desire to be seen as neutral and rational in the eyes of people who at this point have no respect for them-- and this desire is so important that any harm that might come from legitimizing people who have eliminationist ideas just isn't as important.

     It's a kind of affirmative action for conservative ideas only practiced by centrist liberals.

     Can you imagine centrist conservatives ever even having such a concern?

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     Theodore Painsworth (itty53@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 10:45:56 JST Theodore Painsworth

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     • Eddie the Bulldog

     @Eddiethebulldog @foser

     Now? Nazism started out exactly like that. It was always presenting itself as such.

     In its earliest days the party called itself "the third way", explicitly saying "both extent sides are equally bad, therefore we need a third option". There's literally a far right Nazi party called The Third Way that's active today. They were the original enlightened centrists. That phrase third way has been used since before WW2 to describe what boiled down to Nazi ideology.

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     Eddie the Bulldog (eddiethebulldog@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 10:45:57 JST Eddie the Bulldog

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     @foser “both sides” in now an exploit for the nazi movement.

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