While near as I can tell this does seem to be a good description of how SJ’s think, the typical way the Alt-Right thinks is, “The SJ’s dox us, therefore we’re justified in doxxing SJ’s”.
I’d be interested in seeing a citation for this, just like a link to a discussion in a “typical alt-right place” that uses this reasoning explicitly
Here is Vox Day explicitly arguing that if conservatives can be fired for expressing their opinions, so should NFL player for disrespecting the flag.
We all know that the NFL wouldn’t hesitate to act if players started throwing Nazi salutes; they already come down hard on the expression of any opinion that is negative about homosexuality.
The Rubicon has been decisively crossed, so it’s time to start cracking down on “speech” Americans don’t like.
Always play by the rules that are actually in place, not by the rules that you wish were in place.
That looks to me not so much like “The enemy does X, therefore we’re justified in doing the same to them” but “The enemy does X, therefore no one can object to our doing the same to them without hypocrisy”. I think Vox Day and his pals would want NFL players fired for “disrespecting the flag” (etc., etc., etc.) even if no one were doing anything of the sort to rightists.
(I’m sure there is a lot of “they did X to us, so we can do X to them” thinking going on, though, on all sides. It’s a very standard social failure mode and tends to lead to prolonged escalation.)
I’d be interested in seeing a citation for this, just like a link to a discussion in a “typical alt-right place” that uses this reasoning explicitly
Here is Vox Day explicitly arguing that if conservatives can be fired for expressing their opinions, so should NFL player for disrespecting the flag.
That looks to me not so much like “The enemy does X, therefore we’re justified in doing the same to them” but “The enemy does X, therefore no one can object to our doing the same to them without hypocrisy”. I think Vox Day and his pals would want NFL players fired for “disrespecting the flag” (etc., etc., etc.) even if no one were doing anything of the sort to rightists.
(I’m sure there is a lot of “they did X to us, so we can do X to them” thinking going on, though, on all sides. It’s a very standard social failure mode and tends to lead to prolonged escalation.)