You're right, they go out there and meet incels and fascists and try to dress the portrait of the "misunderstood kid", meanwhile we get reduced to a congealed mass that exists solely on the computer screen (but is somehow still very dangerous)
I can't say it would be a good use of your time (arguably, it would be actively detrimental to us all) but you probably could get a response if you reached out to the people who did this paper, if you were interested.
It's wild how liberal journos do all those ethnographic interviews of fascist groups but don't seem to do the same for communists nearly as often.
You're right, they go out there and meet incels and fascists and try to dress the portrait of the "misunderstood kid", meanwhile we get reduced to a congealed mass that exists solely on the computer screen (but is somehow still very dangerous)
I can't say it would be a good use of your time (arguably, it would be actively detrimental to us all) but you probably could get a response if you reached out to the people who did this paper, if you were interested.
We should instead publish our own response paper accusing them of being tankies. That's a thing academics do, right? Like diss tracks?
Yeah, a "Poverty of Philosophy" type beat, except they have given us so little to work with that it would be difficult to make anything substantial.
Major “The Incoherence of the Incoherence” vibes