Things like that are pretty cringe but I wouldnt drop him outright.
Where Lindsay has value is being a relatively "sanitized" red pill dispenser for ClaSsIcAl LiBeRaLs and whatever conservatives and boomers see him.
Where he fails, of course, is still trying to fight for "classical liberalism" but I think his work is invaluable by laying the ground work for people to be more amenable to things that go beyond just that.
Would I be amenable to even listening to Academic Agent or, say, Auron MacIntyre even without stumbling upon Lindsay first? Absolutely not.
Don't punch right. Disagree certainly, but do so politely and cordially instead of calling them "dangerous".
Even people like Styx (who is probably further to the left than Lindsey) understand this and will openly discuss things in good faith with people far to their right without insulting them or telling others that they ought to be disregarded or ignored.
People like Styx disagree with people further to their right all the time. He used to do a show with Paul Ramsey, spoke with Richard Spencer back in the day.
Except he did it all without acting as though they were somehow his enemies.
it would be better if it actually were random, but these people punch right systematically. especially the Lindsey-types who are only catering to the middle-right because the Overton window shifted and knocked them off their pedestal. these people are pathologically prone to punching right and cannot be trusted
If anyone went to public school, or worse through multiple levels of college they have underwent ~2 decades of conditioning. Piled on top of that is the omnipresent crushing weight of the subverted culture and media, that anything to the right of mitt romney is the worst thing in the world.
We need to accept that very few people in the west grew up in with a support structure where being even slightly to the right of overton meant anything but signing your social death warrant.
It takes what might be a personality disorder to even consider ideas that have ingrained as the most heinous taboos since pretty much birth.
I don't even know what "systematically" means in this context. I'm guessing it means nothing, same as when leftists say it.
But besides that, this dude has spent the last several years tearing apart Marxist garbage and exposing leftist subversion and hypocrisy. As far as I know, he's actually the inventor of the "Ok groomer" meme. He's got an entire podcast series on Paulo Freire and literal "groomer schools."
I'd say he punches in a lot of directions. You might even say he's "systematically" punching left if you look at his New Discourses material that specifically targets leftist Marxist dogma.
Things like that are pretty cringe but I wouldnt drop him outright.
Where Lindsay has value is being a relatively "sanitized" red pill dispenser for ClaSsIcAl LiBeRaLs and whatever conservatives and boomers see him.
Where he fails, of course, is still trying to fight for "classical liberalism" but I think his work is invaluable by laying the ground work for people to be more amenable to things that go beyond just that.
Would I be amenable to even listening to Academic Agent or, say, Auron MacIntyre even without stumbling upon Lindsay first? Absolutely not.
Don't punch right. Disagree certainly, but do so politely and cordially instead of calling them "dangerous".
Even people like Styx (who is probably further to the left than Lindsey) understand this and will openly discuss things in good faith with people far to their right without insulting them or telling others that they ought to be disregarded or ignored.
Punching right can be useful, as it shows the difference between you and those individuals who are more right.
Many would be more comfortable with the left if they called out their own extremes. But they don't, so they drive people right.
People like Styx disagree with people further to their right all the time. He used to do a show with Paul Ramsey, spoke with Richard Spencer back in the day.
Except he did it all without acting as though they were somehow his enemies.
Being sanitized and milquetoast isn't the problem. It's the randomly punching right and denouncing the people whose ideas he is using.
it would be better if it actually were random, but these people punch right systematically. especially the Lindsey-types who are only catering to the middle-right because the Overton window shifted and knocked them off their pedestal. these people are pathologically prone to punching right and cannot be trusted
If anyone went to public school, or worse through multiple levels of college they have underwent ~2 decades of conditioning. Piled on top of that is the omnipresent crushing weight of the subverted culture and media, that anything to the right of mitt romney is the worst thing in the world.
We need to accept that very few people in the west grew up in with a support structure where being even slightly to the right of overton meant anything but signing your social death warrant.
It takes what might be a personality disorder to even consider ideas that have ingrained as the most heinous taboos since pretty much birth.
I don't even know what "systematically" means in this context. I'm guessing it means nothing, same as when leftists say it.
But besides that, this dude has spent the last several years tearing apart Marxist garbage and exposing leftist subversion and hypocrisy. As far as I know, he's actually the inventor of the "Ok groomer" meme. He's got an entire podcast series on Paulo Freire and literal "groomer schools."
I'd say he punches in a lot of directions. You might even say he's "systematically" punching left if you look at his New Discourses material that specifically targets leftist Marxist dogma.