I, uh, never thought I would see an article by an unabashed fascist whose twitter handle was, for a long time, "Fisted By Foucault" show up on the front page of Hacker News...
There's a terminally Online neo-fascist who goes around interviewing other terminally Online personalities. Of interest only to maybe a few thousand people globally who spend all their time following schizophrenic racists on twitter.
Remember in the mid-nineties when all the object-oriented programming consultants were 'discovering' patterns? I think 'unrepentant baguette merchant' had something to do with multiple inheritance.
You're reading Substack's "Medium moment"; i.e. the moment when seeing that in the URL goes from 'hey, this link must be pretty good' to 'this link is probably garbage'.
I think his is a point that (as a person of color in the us) I've been afraid to say out loud. Nobody ever calls me racist, but when someone eventually does, I know what my response will be: "yes, I am. And so are you".
I've read about 1/3rd of this, and so far it is just someone who trucks in broad stereotypes and edge-lordiness. I haven't really read an original thought yet. Maybe there is one lodged in there somewhere, but I don't feel too compelled to go searching for it.
As most comments at this time profess not getting it... I read this as satire. Humorous derogatory remarks by and targeting the French and their intellectuals. As a European who has lived in France about a year I see good humour in this. The French (or should I say Parisien) are something else. You lose more in translation in Paris than in Shanghai or Beijing. Perhaps it only seems that way since the culture and language seem closer and one is more aware of the subtle differences, but still.
"There is nothing more mysterious than blood. Paracelsus considered it a condensation of light. I believe that the Aryan, Hyperborean blood is that – but not the light of the Golden Sun, not of a galactic sun, but of the light of the Black Sun, of the Green Ray."
Well, that was a wild ride, interesting to see non-liberal political views on HN (although I see the inevitable "hurr durr Nazi fascist" downvotes are already coming in). This bit in particular resonated:
In contemporary American discourse a word like "racism" has as much connection to phenomena in the real world as "Trotskyite" had in Russia under Stalin. So if someone says "You're a racist!" and you respond "I'm not a racist because X and Y and Z" you have already lost because you have implicitly conceded that there is this thing out there called "racism" which is really big and bad and scary, and one that your enemies get to define for you. And it doesn't matter that your X or Y or Z may be absolutely correct. You still lose by dignifying the accusation e.g. ("I am not part of the Trotskyite conspiracy!"). The entire thing is transparently preposterous and should be responded to appropriately, with laughter and derision.
And let's face it, we are so eager to say "I'm not a racist!" because we're afraid of what will happen to us if we don't. And people can smell fear, and it's unattractive. Be not afraid!
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But I admire his cavalier way of being. I'd have a drink with him, even if I had to keep my dogs out of sight.
Huzzah! I say.
What the hell is this shit?
EDIT: Nice, it's a quote from a neo-Nazi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Serrano
Can someone please get this garbage off HN and back to 4chan where it belongs?
In contemporary American discourse a word like "racism" has as much connection to phenomena in the real world as "Trotskyite" had in Russia under Stalin. So if someone says "You're a racist!" and you respond "I'm not a racist because X and Y and Z" you have already lost because you have implicitly conceded that there is this thing out there called "racism" which is really big and bad and scary, and one that your enemies get to define for you. And it doesn't matter that your X or Y or Z may be absolutely correct. You still lose by dignifying the accusation e.g. ("I am not part of the Trotskyite conspiracy!"). The entire thing is transparently preposterous and should be responded to appropriately, with laughter and derision.
And let's face it, we are so eager to say "I'm not a racist!" because we're afraid of what will happen to us if we don't. And people can smell fear, and it's unattractive. Be not afraid!