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This is a long article (excerpts from a book apparently) but it’s interesting.
Basically the author, a man with Jewish heritage, makes a fake persona and joins far-right groups. He’s assisted by the group Hope Not Hate.
What do you think of the far-right? One of the interesting points that is made in the article a few times is that some far-right adherents, met by the author, seem to want friendship more than anything else. At least that’s the author’s view.
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Powerful piece. Incredibly sad that most of the “foot soldiers” of these organisations seem to be socially awkward and craving friendship. Terrible that they are finding friendship in these organisations. If only the government provided them with a better more fulfilling outlook that might have been avoided.
It goes to show that the reason these groups exist is that a small minority of wealthy racists are taking advantage of fragile minds.
There is a great series with Stephen Graham about this very topic and it really does seem like a lot of disenfranchised men get sucked in.
It’s called The Walk-In.
These wealthy racists are extremely misguided. They think in a post-capitalist society, shock collars will keep security detail loyal to them. Perhaps they’ve come around to think feeding them well, too. What they aren’t counting these men have learned to overcome physical and emotional pain and deprivation. They have possibly learned to master their emotions, but I’m betting beneath the surface, something is seething that doesn’t bode well for the wealthy racists.
Any guesses as to what effect pulling loads of people’s PIP is going to have on this situation?
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men will do anything to avoid therapy
the therapists that wouldn’t hesitate to mouth off about everything you tell them to the authorities and have you involuntarily held? it’s almost like they aren’t your friend
eh? that’s either because they are unethical and breaking their code or you are doing some incredibly shady shit and they are obliged to inform authorities to avoid you hurting someone.
they do this if you so much as say something they consider by whatever metric to be “harmful to yourself” too, nobody wants to be involuntarily held so who on earth is going to be honest to them?