Comments by "dkosmari" (@dkosmari) on "The Officer Tatum"
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I think there's one mistake in your analysis. It's not white guilt.
Joe Rogan, interviewing Jordan Peterson, asked about how virtue signaling acts like a drug. This was Peterson's response:
>The question is, what is the drug? The drug might be
>"oh I'm a good person." Maybe. But a more psychoanalytically minded
>person might say "no, that's not actually the drug.
>The drug is: the hatred. And the rationalization for the use of power.
>And the wish for totalitarian control, and tyrannical rule. That the mask of virtue covers."
>So the virtue signaling, actually, that's not what's really providing the big kick. "I'm a good person." No, it's even better than this.
>"I've got a place to direct my worst impulses. I don't even have to notice them myself, because I've got this mask of virtue, so I can let the demonic forces that make up part of the human psyche. I can let them have carte blanche, and then also say that I'm virtuous."
I think this is a more precise description of the phenomenon. The people stirring up the controversy aren't feeling guilty. They feel hatred, for white people and western culture. Minorities are just being used as an excuse. They don't care about the two men that got arrested for trespassing, they care about flexing their power in the name of the minority they somehow represent.
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