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He has a whole testament on a web site about his life. Tucker mentioned it but I haven't found it yet.
Cannot recall anyone on the left purposely running over and killing a woman during a protest or entering a church during a prayer service and murdering nine people or buying into conspiracy theories and shooting up pizza parlors.
What is a radical community? For the purposes of this article, I will define it as a community that shares both an ideology of complete dissatisfaction with existing society due to its oppressive nature and a desire to radically alter or destroy that society because it cannot be redeemed by its own means. I eventually fell out with my own radical community. The ideology and the people within it had left me a burned and disillusioned wreck. As I deprogrammed, I watched a diluted version of my radical ideology explode out of academia and become fashionable: I watched the Left become woke.
Commentators have skewered social justice activists on the toxicity of the woke mindset. This is something that many radicals across North America are aware of and are trying to understand. Nicholas Montgomery and Carla Bergman’s Joyful Militancy (JM), published last year, is the most thorough look at radical toxicity from a radical perspective (full disclosure: I very briefly met Nick Montgomery years ago. My anarchist clique did not like his anarchist clique). As they say, “there is a mild totalitarian undercurrent not just in call-out culture but also in how progressive communities police and define the bounds of who’s in and who’s out.”
...Deep and sincere engagement with opposing points of view is out of the question.
None of this is surprising to those paying attention. We've been saying this, he's just proving that.
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Change a few of Conor Barnes words and it could just as easily come out of the mouth of former alt-Right / Richard Spencer types. Nothing more than a typical boilerplate deconversion story. Got sucked into X believes and now believe Y. Got sucked into Y believes and now believe X. Not impressed.
I could identify with a few key phrases when it comes to "mainstream traditional values" and "personal responsibility" (according to the rural and suburban upper blue collar to upper middle class standards), and "it's all in their head", etc. which is how I gradually abandoned traditional values and attitudes over the years. No system's perfect, including the traditional, conventional ones. Without change, we'd still be stuck in the Middle Ages at best.
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