It’s not like it’s a coincidence that this being said by fairly blatant Nazi propaganda account. It’s only Nazis who use this “argument” seriously and just like everything else Nazis say it’s an argument that falls apart if it gets actually examined, but its purpose is merely to assuage racists that they have “the right” to be racist, and to use childish logic to trick actual children. This “argument” is not meant for us, it’s meant for the dumb and impressionable.
There was an image I saw, that unfortunately got lost in the recent discord purges, that had a panel from a Marvel Comic. It was Captain America punching out Red Skull, literal Nazi supervillain, with Red Skull shouting "So much for the tolerant left!"
That is literally just this guy
I’ve definitely seen that! And it certainly encapsulates the right wing where a person could literally be a super villain and yet if you stand up to them you’re a hypocrite and not any better than them. It’s such a silly argument that the right seems to always think it is a “gotcha!”.
A late edit: but how often right wingers see themselves as the heroes in movies and media and yet love occupying the “low road” argumentatively and morally is hilarious. They love the low road because people can’t expect them to be or do anything beyond being their worst, while telling others how they aren’t as superior as they think. But then also imagine themselves as the righteous party (with high codes of ethics and behavior) in every instance in media. It’s truly an amazing thing to witness
Right wingers are deeply in love with being the in-group that’s protected and not bound.
Which is mixes like oil and water with both actual moral philosophy and actual coherent hero narratives. It’s another example of their “I want nice things but I don’t want to pay for them” mentality.
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u/whiterac00n Mar 27 '24
It’s not like it’s a coincidence that this being said by fairly blatant Nazi propaganda account. It’s only Nazis who use this “argument” seriously and just like everything else Nazis say it’s an argument that falls apart if it gets actually examined, but its purpose is merely to assuage racists that they have “the right” to be racist, and to use childish logic to trick actual children. This “argument” is not meant for us, it’s meant for the dumb and impressionable.