It’s become kinda amazing to me lately that a generation of people who proudly talk up their formative years spent on PHPBB forums and IRC seem to have completely forgotten the golden rule about not feeding the trolls.

Right now, though, it should probably come from a USian:

I have a deep frustration with well meaning comrades and liberals who try and provide critical analyses of the right mostly based out of dominant seminar-room theories of culture that are utterly incomprehensible to most people. The truth of those theoretical abstractions—that yes, Western modernity is a racist imperial project designed to extract value out of marginalized Others before disposing of them—doesn’t always help us understand what these people, today, right now, think they are doing and how they understand their project. If you spend time watching MSNBC and hear from figures like Heather Cox Richardson that fascism is back, and it’s when the bad men want to have a big government, you’re going to miss why their project has been so successful. If you spend time on Twitter/X/TikTok applying Wikipedia level summaries of Aimé Césaire to a Charlie Kirk podcast, then I hate to say it but you are playing directly into their hands and mostly convincing yourself of your own moral and intellectual superiority while someone else actually spends time changing the world to fit their vision.

“No notes”, as the saying goes.