Thread by @slackbastard

Dumped by sponsors, what happens to Pete Evans now? smh.com.au/culture/tv-and…

'The fact that I had to actually Google what neo-Nazi meant is pretty telling.' ~ Pete Evans

I read it as meaning that Evans is incredibly -- almost mind-bogglingly -- stoopid. Which would kinda be in accord w the other public positions he's taken. Otoh >

> the cooked fella has not, to my knowledge, declared authorship of the dankness. Either way, it did appear on a Scandinavian neo-Nazi webshite on NOV 15, so assuming he didn't create it himself, he plucked it from there ,or he saw it on some other fashy channel & >

> liked it so much he had to share it. Further, given that he replied to one commenter that he was happy they were able to correctly determine the use of the 'Black Sun' in the meme, protestations of innocence are hardly credible, especially as elsewhere on his soc media >

> inre a discussion on German history & the Holocaust he suggested that another commenter Read Moar to determine the truthiness of the Nazi genocidal campaign, the Just Asking Questions™ schtick is wearing very, very thin. A few further observations ... >

... 1) nazis are incorrigible liars, & almost-always disingenuous. Their aim in online interactions is to deploy these kinds of rhetorical techniques in order to both promote & simultaneously distance themselves from their political commitments. >

There's now a voluminous literature documenting this phenomena, to such a degree & extent that it's almost become a cliché. Meatheads like Evans are easy prey for this stuff b/c they're historically & politically illiterate ... tho' any body who, like Evans >

> has immersed themselves in this worlde aren't credible inre claims of not being exposed to it ('What's a truck?'). Insufferable, rlly. Ofc, 2) having someone w a million followers sharing this is all about exposure, & (im-)plausible denial. In this sense, it doesn't matter >

> if most ppl reacc w horror or 'WTF?', b/c the point is to reach that sliver of the audience that's receptive, while simultaneously naturalising & if poss popularising such expressions ('Did Six Million RLLY Die?' -- blah blah blah). Therein lies the danger >

> which is Making Aryanism Great Again, not whatever thoughts happen to be pinging about Evans' tiny bRanes at any particular moment. And yeah, this ideological evolution can take place extremely rapidly -- which, if nothing else, the Trumpist Q campaign demonstrates abundantly.

PS. I take all this sh!t as read, which is why (like so much else), I typically don't bother articulating it.

Anyway!

PPS. There's an errant comma in the above thread ('he plucked it from there ,or'), along w some mildly-wonky grammar. Another reason I hate doing threads, & why Jack should introduce an edit f(n).

(Oh, & maybe kick the f*ckin nazis off.)

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PPPS. The img may have originally surfaced in JUL 2019. You'll find, eg, a (slightly-modified vers) on this neo-Nazi blog > archive.is/ZAzVb (h/t : @_BMT99).

SCORE!