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"Steve Bannon is just Ariana Huffington with a few extra successful career paths on his resume. They both run biased, divisive click bait rags. Is Ariana Huffington also evil?"

Running the click bait rag isn't what makes him evil.

So what does make him evil in your opinion?

marcus says

THe idea that righteousness causes Naziism is absurd.

Righteousness is not a sufficient condition. It is a necessary condition for group evil behavior on another group.

Show me a historical example where righteousness was not a core motivating factor in delusional group evil...

Every war, every genocide, racist oppression, the inquisition... you find righteousness at the core of each one. Show me where I'm wrong

I think Planned Parenthood bombers and doctor murderers might be an example of right wing righteousness taken to its extreme. Really don't hear all that much condemnation for such acts from the dominionist Mike Pence types.

rando says

It's that some members of the crowd are rabidly righteous and the others start to go along to signal that they are "good" too. Eventually that whole damn crowd is ready to viciously turn on anyone who is not giving off the correct PC signals.

And then they start one upping each other with demonstrations of righteous rhetoric.

Perfect Recent Example:
The Daily Californian, the Student Newspaper of Berkeley. The writers one up each other in successive articles.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/berkeley-student-paper-publishes-columns-praising-anti-milo-riot/

Each successive article praises Antifa more highly, calls people who opposed antifa violence "Unaware of their Privilege", insists the violence was a righteous pre-emptive strike, cutting off violence from "Radicalized White Males" at the pass. Kind of like Bush's claims about Iraq.

In fact, condemning the violence makes you one of the un-righteous:

And words are violence - which has been hinted at by our own posters: "Words Inspire Deeds therefore no anonymity, consequences for Free Speech".

Our own @Rashomon agrees, since he thinks Words lead to Deeds, therefore Speech should never be anonymous and have consequences.

The Rioters believed that since words lead to deeds, and Milo's words would lead to "White Supremacist Violence", they were justified in a pre-emptive violent strike to stop his words becoming violent deeds.

There's a psychological term for this I can't remember, but it's a helluva great excuse. "Punch Nazis". Who is a Nazi? Do they wear the SS Uniform? Or is it somebody you don't agree with?

cynn says

I think Planned Parenthood bombers and doctor murderers might be an example of right wing righteousness taken to its extreme. Really don't hear all that much condemnation for such acts from the dominionist Mike Pence types.

This is a perfect example of righteousness gone awry. I hope no one would defend or encourage this violence, including pence

T L Lipsovich says

rando says

It's that some members of the crowd are rabidly righteous and the others start to go along to signal that they are "good" too. Eventually that whole damn crowd is ready to viciously turn on anyone who is not giving off the correct PC signals.

And then they start one upping each other with demonstrations of righteous rhetoric.

Perfect Recent Example:

The Daily Californian, the Student Newspaper of Berkeley. The writers one up each other in successive articles.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/berkeley-student-paper-publishes-columns-praising-anti-milo-riot/

Each successive article praises Antifa more highly, calls people who opposed antifa violence "Unaware of their Privilege", insists the violence was a rig...