Anonymous #6 1w

I mean they would buy it to say they did and take word as told to them or how they’re told to interpret it

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Anonymous #6 1w

I don’t think they’re illiterate. I disagree with him, but I might read his book. He has a lot of influence in this country even from the grave, and it’s important to try and understand how the people who follow his ideology get influenced and think imo

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Anonymous #14 1w

u don’t need to read his book to understand ‘his ideology’ and it’s not some esoteric mystical shit that u need to decipher. it’s right in front of you and it’s accessible. and also exposure to this kind of content—as someone who works in the research field—u kinda need to have IRB approval and also need to be seeing someone to make sure you’re not a) being desensitized to the rhetorical violence and incitement to violence that he espouses and b) not becoming radicalized (it DOES happen)

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Anonymous #16 1w

mercy for the guilty is cruelty for the innocent

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Anonymous #15 1w

Interesting inversion of smith’s intent

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Anonymous #15 1w

I don’t need anyone’s approval to read a book, thanks. The book is in fact in front of me and accessible if I go to a bookstore sure. I don’t like engaging with online vacuous engagement farming clicks, the substance of one’s ideology is typically better understood through the written word with specific intent. And I’m not dumb enough to forget that intent when reading and get brainwashed like a child. Your sense of paternalism is unnecessary

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Anonymous #16 6d

He was flushed down the toilet

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Anonymous #14 6d

They very much are. Most american adults are functionally illiterate and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the anti-intellectual slop hog freaks on the right embody that ignorance most pruriently.

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i rest my case

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Anonymous #16 6d

be careful, your comment might get deleted like mine was when all i suggested was for people to have conversations with each other instead of insulting each other 😛

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Anonymous #15 6d

bro is acting all smart. he did nothing violent so “cruelty for the innocent” doesn’t exist. you are justifying killing a man because he spoke about his views. it doesn’t matter if you’re offended by it or think his positions were wrong. if it was a leftist you’d be all up in arms about silencing free speech and all that. shut up.

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Anonymous #15 6d

this is the problem most of the time is that people don’t take the opportunity to try to understand the other side. you are part of the problem. let 14 read the book for their own research and seeking of knowledge and understanding.

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Anonymous #1 6d

That’s the problem with modern liberals, they don’t believe in conversation or a exchange of ideas, they just believe in insulting people and labeling them as “Nazis” or “Fascists” (without understanding those ideologies insidious as they are at all) and trying to destroy their lives. It’s ironic as they act more like Nazis then the majority of the right (excluding some on the farther end of that spectrum) given their celebrating violence and antisemitism

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Anonymous #19 6d

Trying to force your own perception of someone’s identity on them based on what you think might be in their pants is inherently fascist. Nazis targeted the LGBTQ+ community and burned decades of trans research. And you’re spouting anti trans lines in your comments above. You are not beating the allegations. We understand perfectly what those terms mean. You are part of an oppressor group, not because of CK, but because of what you have said yourself. I do not have to play nice with oppressors.

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Anonymous #19 6d

Also every antisemitic person I have ever encountered has been right wing. Being against genocide is not the same as being antisemitic. Supporting Jews and supporting the IDF are different. But here you are throwing around a term you have no idea about. Every accusation is a confession, and y’all can’t stop proving that day after day.

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Anonymous #20 6d

Maybe you’re in the wrong group then, girlie pop. Most people who take the time to educate themselves by reading a lot end up leaning to the left. Books teach compassion and broaden world views beyond your own demographic. So if you came out of TKAM, Handmaid’s Tale, Beloved, Dear Martin, Know My Name, etc and still align with anything the current right administration is doing, then you completely missed every single point.

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And everyone who voted for trump is racist and okay with a rapist being president. We can all speak in generalizations. You already outed yourself as a bigot so not much good you’re doing for your cause.

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Just walk outside bro. No one is going to do homework for you when it’s an open notes test. If you refuse to realize that kidnapping people who are being sworn into citizenship is fucked, then you’re hopeless.

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You’re a cult member!!!!

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Barnes & Noble is a business like any other, they don’t really care about personal political & ethical considerations outside of finding a way to monetize them lmao. I read hillbilly elegy years before Vance even ran for senate. I read Peter Thiel & his acolytes’ works rather consistently, not because I like or support them, quite the contrary actually, but because they are a force in American power structures with very particular aims that must be understood. Ignorance is not a virtue

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Anonymous #3 6d

In all fairness I don’t expect to learn or understand much in terms of fundamental truth. The book, like most in the surface level political sphere, was probably written by a ghost writer. I would just want to read it to get an idea of the aims of his ideology, its self conceptions, the way it affects people who engage with it already supporting it, etc. I always walk in with an open mind though

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There’s no point in arguing with leftists. They know CK was a moderate that believed the same things that their typical boomer uncle does, but a lot of them celebrated his death anyway. They’d do the same for you. Many of them are spiteful and mentally unwell people that project their feelings of self loathing, guilt, and inadequacy onto external figures like CK as a coping mechanism. The best thing to do is to ignore them and live happily. They hate that they can’t

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Anonymous #23 6d

Idk man, I feel pretty happy. I think a lot of ppl in these comments need to just chill out in nature with other people away from the internet for a bit or something, y’all be saying some weird stuff

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Anonymous #19 6d

i believe that conversation is so powerful. if both sides could sit down and discuss things civilly, i think the country would be running smoother. we are so divided because there is no conversation, there are just insults from both sides.

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Buddy you didn’t even read what the fuck I said so I don’t know why I am bothering to respond. People are getting taken WHILE DOING IT LEGALLY but you people don’t care about laws. Your gang voted for a felon. You just care about putting brown people in cages without due process. If you actually understood immigration and asylum laws, you would be freaked out by how much this admin is violating them too. But since you can’t comprehend a comment on YikYak, there may be no hope for you.

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Y’all are just embracing your own echo chambers atp, SAD!

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Anonymous #14 5d

Agreeing with someones take on something = echo chamber… news to me

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You’re not beating your own allegations by being a bigot in this comment section. I don’t know why you’re shocked when people call you out.

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Anonymous #3 5d

I mean 23’s take was that it’s not worth it talking to leftists and to embrace echo chambers by ignoring them—which is similar to what ppl like 15 were saying. It’s not impossible to just respectfully engage with other ppl you disagree with, even if you hold them/their ideology liable for a lot of evil things. Do I think ck was a bigot? Yeah, does that mean I treat some random person who I’ve never met that happens to support him like Satan or some subhuman to always ignore? No

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Man I haven’t said anything bigoted or racist. Y’all can just be nice to each other yknow? Like just bc someone else is being weird doesn’t mean you need to mirror that. Having an open mind and caring for other ppl enough to treat everyone with basic dignity in spite of their…personality is a principle. You either stick by your principles or you don’t have them

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Anonymous #24 3d

Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences

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