Excuse my ignorance, but could someone explain why that tween Elon agreed with recently is considered antisemetic? - eviltoast
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So… honest question here. The original tweeter.

    Does anybody wanna take a stab at what the heck ‘Dialectical Hatred’ even… means?
    I mean, hatred, yeah. that’s obvious.
    Dialectical… though is usually a method of discourse that’s similar to debating- that is, two opposing view points hashing it out. (it differs some from debating, particularly in the arguments that are considered appropriate- for example, debate allows emotional arguments where dialectics doesn’t)

    • octoperson@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Can’t find any evidence of that being a term prior to the tweet. I’d guess one of

      • they meant something simple like ‘hateful dialogue’ or ‘hateful diatribe’, and thought it was a smart person way of saying it.
      • it’s the dog whistle du jour. Somewhere on stormfront or voat they’re getting terribly worked up about ‘dialectical hatred’ as the new current threat to the white race.
      • it’s used in some niche context where it has meaning. But our tweeter thinks it’s got more reach than it actually does.