# "Intellectual Dark Web" Stupidity Omnibus

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectual-dark-web-stupidity-omnibus/827193 "2019-01-04T13:53:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectual-dark-web-stupidity-omnibus/827193/61 "2019-01-05T12:33:08Z")

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> [@Ale](#):
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> It boggles the mind that there are people that would take that exchange as proof of how right wing (wink-wink-nazi-nudge-nudge) they guy is.
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> He was throwing back their worst insults back at them and racking them in their hypocrisy, which led to actual Nazis going after him.
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> It’s world distorting hysterical stupidity wrapped up in self righteousness. This is how deranged conspiracy theorist operate, they take any evidence against their delusions as proof of an even bigger conspiracy.
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> And I don’t even like Carl Benjamin all that much.
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> As for the OP the two people that come to my mind when I hear Intellectual Dark Web are Bret Weinstein and Jonathan Haidt, that BPC things it’s an evil right wing cabal speaks more about his detachment with reality than anything else.
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> You are modern day Don Quixotes, a man who went insane after stewing in fantasy writings for too long, you are tilting at windmills and assume everyone that points out the windmills are not giants it’s a bleeping giant apologist in your fevered minds.
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> Insanity, sheer, insanity.

Y’know, there’s another thread over here about how people are upset you can’t say “Nigger” anymore.

(Very few points for guessing that that thread was started by local incel and shitstain **Blalron**.)

And there was this little insight in there:

> [@The recent taboo of using the N-word under ANY circumstances](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recent-taboo-of-using-the-n-word-under-any-circumstances/827189/14):
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> I agree. The problem is how some people kept looking for loopholes that allowed them to say it.
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> “Can I say it if I’m quoting Mark Twain? Can I say it if I’m quoting Quentin Tarantino? Can I say it if I’m quoting the lyrics to a rap song? Can I say it if I’m being ironic? Can I can it if I’m wearing a disapproving look? Can I say it if I pronounce it slightly differently? Can I say a word that sounds like it?”
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> If you tell these people they can’t say it a thousand times a day, their response will be “So it’s okay to say it nine hundred times a day?”
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> Eventually you just have to tell these people that they can never say it under any circumstances. It’s the only way you can stop them.

Carl, as someone who has made his personal brand and indeed his career on being a reactionary and punching down at any nut he can pick, is not someone who we can rely on to shout racial slurs in a reasonable manner. Even if the context is “making fun of nazis by comparing them to people they hate”. Actually, come to think of it, that’s a really shitty context no matter how you spin it. “You are acting like a nigger” is still a really shitty thing to say in that context. Sargon continues to be an incredibly shitty person, and the fact that he’s being deplatformed is not something anyone reasonable should lose sleep over.

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