Kathy, yes, your chilling line "...it comes from somewhere else" is entirely true. This group's core impulse is not life-affirming, it is death-affirming, easily understood from those 6 snippets FAIR chose for the essay. Though I have all the receipts of these kinds of posts, going back to 2018 now, I asked the FAIR folks to choose what …
Kathy, yes, your chilling line "...it comes from somewhere else" is entirely true. This group's core impulse is not life-affirming, it is death-affirming, easily understood from those 6 snippets FAIR chose for the essay. Though I have all the receipts of these kinds of posts, going back to 2018 now, I asked the FAIR folks to choose what they wanted to include, as 1) it hurts so much to read them and 2) just in case there were names evident on the posts (a friend gathers them, not me) I didn't want to let bias inform the choice. So they were clean in this way, and I think even more impactful. The truth is right there for all to read. Again... chilling.
Kathy, yes, your chilling line "...it comes from somewhere else" is entirely true. This group's core impulse is not life-affirming, it is death-affirming, easily understood from those 6 snippets FAIR chose for the essay. Though I have all the receipts of these kinds of posts, going back to 2018 now, I asked the FAIR folks to choose what they wanted to include, as 1) it hurts so much to read them and 2) just in case there were names evident on the posts (a friend gathers them, not me) I didn't want to let bias inform the choice. So they were clean in this way, and I think even more impactful. The truth is right there for all to read. Again... chilling.