I wouldn’t be so quick to assume they don’t notice. Some are good faith sure, but I’ve really stopped assuming good faith with people “just asking questions”. Often enough I bet that they’re deliberately rather than accidentally trying to create a permission structure for bigotry
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Will Stancil
The advance team for fascism are “reasonable moderates” who can’t help from asking questions that cast vulnerable groups in a bad light. They don’t notice that the popularity of these claims is not driven by the claims’ own insightfulness, but by who they give audiences permission to resent.
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