In the wake of Trump’s motorcade driving through the Atlanta ghetto - in order to film a few black people cheering for a conservative - we’re once again seeing a bunch of conservative talking heads rehash the same tired bullshit about blacks waking up to the corruption and degeneracy of the left. These pundits are claiming that black support for Trump is now at 20% and climbing!
Nonsense. The reality is that we have a cottage industry of black content creators, influencers, and reactors who promote conservatism not for a black audience but rather for a white conservative audience. Because white conservatives are absolutely terrified of being labeled racist, so black creators are ready to cash in with content that serves that demographic.
Blacks are never going to support republicans.
That's just your imagining of someone else's thoughts and feelings.
Because he said that others regard him as a 'subverter'?
The point is not to persuade people, but to create discussion.
No, its turning his own bullshit back on him:
He assumes everyone's feelings and thoughts (its why he constantly accuses me of bad faith for merely not agreeing with him). In that very top comment he is assuming miles of things about everyone's politics and beliefs simply because they don't think Blacks are going to support Republicans.
Yes, because its a moment of revealing he isn't a retarded autist (like Imp) or even a stubborn mule like yourself. Its self awareness to know that his methodology is martyrdom, but he does it anyway. And because he does it constantly, he clearly must derive some joy from it.
This runs contrary to your point of "An excess of contrarianism is to be preferred to an excess of conformity."
Because all it does is make most people feel more valid in their beliefs. They don't have to successfully defend them well, or have principles, or anything else you claimed it accomplishes. They can just point and laugh at someone trying to combat them badly and feel more validated.
It straight up increases the conformity simply because they now all know who each other are, have a common enemy to point and laugh at, and can strengthen each other's arguments by leeching off what they see other's say. DrJester was a classic example of an extreme example of literally driving people to join arms with the antisemites because of how awful his "contrarian" takes were.
If you want to generate discussion that's fine. But most of the discussion will just make the echo chamber stronger unless you are sufficiently charismatic and persuasive enough to make people question and back down on points, or at the very least likeable enough that people won't just call you a fag and stop engaging with you in real discussion.