Huh. I was just reading a Quillette article on the infamous
Requires Hate/Winterfox.
Doesn't surprise me that Bob goes all 'no, YOU are racist!' when people point out that anti-white bigotry is no better than anti-black, anti-Asian, anti-whatever, etc.
I was rereading some blogpostings elsewhere, talking about Thomas Sowell and the competing social visions of 'the constrained' and 'the unconstrained'. This is pretty involved so here's the highlights:
The constrained vision accepts that human nature is going to be imperfect. Therefore, you want to set up systems (governing, economic, etc) where people who become raging assholes can do as little damage as possible. Constraining them as much as you can, so you don't have one or more people completely fuck up the system. If this seems a bit like the concept of original sin in Christianity, that occurred to me too; however, there's no opprobrium or malice in this diagnosis. We're all imperfect, we all make mistakes.
By contrast, the unconstrained vision views humanity as a work in progress moving towards perfection; and thus must be made so. This is what leads to such hilarious views as 'this will work if the right people are in charge'. The outcomes that the unconstrained seek are not just goals, but moral mandates; akin to religious admonitions (hence why I sometimes troll progressives by remarking on their evangelism).
Bob is the poster child for the unconstrained vision. No act is too vile in the pursuit of his utopia. Crush out dissent, destroy livelihoods, even genocide -- just steps on the road to a Better Tomorrow.
That's why I'm so glad his influence ranges from marginal to nonexistent, in the grand scheme of things.
