bobbybobbob
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- Jan 10, 2016
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I can't get over what a stupid and lazy slur "authoritarian" is. It gets thrown around all the time around here. Please define exactly what it means.
The term is directly from Wilehlm Reich's writings, which were pretty explicitly a reaction to Nazism. Reich himself has a lot of interesting stuff to say but was also obviously an extremely weird dude with a mess of very bizarre sexual hang-ups. I dare you to read more about him without getting weird-ed out.
I hear Danny Roddy and Haidut throw this term "authoritarian" around without explication and my brain just shuts down because it's so dumb in the contexts they try to use it.
Why can't reference simply be made to specific erroneous ideas? "Authoritarian" is a lazy smear on the level of "commie" "fascist" "hick" "pseudo-intellectual" "racist" and nothing more.
The term is directly from Wilehlm Reich's writings, which were pretty explicitly a reaction to Nazism. Reich himself has a lot of interesting stuff to say but was also obviously an extremely weird dude with a mess of very bizarre sexual hang-ups. I dare you to read more about him without getting weird-ed out.
I hear Danny Roddy and Haidut throw this term "authoritarian" around without explication and my brain just shuts down because it's so dumb in the contexts they try to use it.
Why can't reference simply be made to specific erroneous ideas? "Authoritarian" is a lazy smear on the level of "commie" "fascist" "hick" "pseudo-intellectual" "racist" and nothing more.