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Hi @RomanCabanac thanks for unblocking me. I’ll try and be less mean to you going forward. I was told that you discussed my antics on your show, so let me clarify:
I can’t say that YOU are radical. I believe that you act as a friendly, “rational” usher at the entrance of the
I can’t say that YOU are radical. I believe that you act as a friendly, “rational” usher at the entrance of the
South African rightwing freakshow. It starts with guys like you & Gouws convincing people who, for reasons we can debate, have lost trust in mainstream media sources that present content that’s in tension with your right wing views. “THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS CORRUPT WOKE FAKE NEWS
TRYING TO ENGINEER A MARXIST TAKEOVER THATLL BE THE END OF THE WEST!!” so all views,opinions & critiques coming from ‘the mainstream’ can be dismissed. Once you’ve issued them a ticket at the entrance to the right-wing circus & smeared any & all conflicting sources, it’s a
downhill sprint to the IRR (which has long ceased to be an organization that promotes anything that remotely resembles liberalism) & Ngobese (an absolute partisan hack whose conservative extremism makes the most insane tea party activists look like country club republicans), then
to Jerm, a moron who also happens to be a race-realist with incredibly odious views who gives softball interviews to despicable people. Before they know it they’re on terrain where Steve Hofmeyr (a man with racism so monumental it’s actually humbling) is actually reasonable, Kyle
Rittenhouse is a brave defender of western civilization and joining a militia seems like a sensible idea. I know you nor I have the numbers to back this up, but you have to admit that your antics seems to move a lot of people further to their right (you asked a question on where
people get their news & most of the response were wild bruh-WILD) & almost never even slightly nudge anyone to their left. Why is that? You,Roman Cabanac, might not be a RW radical, & fuck you might not even be aware that you’re doing this. But you are absolutely contributing to
an infosphere that is more polarizing, encouraging people to embrace political, social & economic positions that are less moderate, & cranking up the hyperbolic paranoia to dangerous levels. Skepticism of narratives is healthy, & I don’t take exceptions to anyone challenging
gatekeepers of information & truth-in fact I think it’s important that it happens, but we've moved from reasonable suspicion to absolute rejection, truth and reality itself is distorted by our collective inability to converge on a shared set of facts. There's no coming back from
