Alt-rightonline poison nearly turned me into a racist

It's actally an hoax in the style of Sokal.

https://twitter.com/godfreyelfwick/status/803687334482939904

LOL, the Guardian newspaper has outdone itself in losing credibility. Even if this article weren't provably false, all the author was saying is that he was swayed by logic and returned to baseless emotional thinking. What a complete shaft.

It sounds more like the author is liberal by way of accidental osmosis than any deliberate, principled stand. It's one thing to condemn alt-right thinking as racist/sexist/etc., another to frame his experience as a boogeyman story to encourage fear-mongering. Why he didn't intellectually engage and dissect the arguments he read is probably the better question. It's not as if Sam Harris' arguments about Islam's so-called innate opposition to Western values are close to bulletproof.

Story of how somebody observed his attitudes drifting into racism after keeping an open mind about rightist arguments online. Sam Harris is the gateway drug.

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So wait, I read all kinds of online crap, including lots of the stuff mentioned in the article, and do not drift into racism. Fuck me, I don't exist.

This random idiot nearly drifts into racism and he gets a platform and a global voice?