Jeet Heer on Twitter

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5. Sartre's Anti-Semite & Jew (1944), written while Holocaust was at height, very good on how anti-Semites use irony.

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This excerpt from a 1944 essay on anti-semitism really spoke to me. I feel this perfectly describes the tactics of alt-right Trump supporters that overwhelm Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other social media sites. I often wonder whether they're brainwashed or if this is a deliberate tactic, but I'm convinced more than ever that it's deliberate. Absolutely deliberate. There has to be a way to fight back against this sort of hyperagressive obfuscating that destroys genuine discussion of issues, I just wish I knew what it was.