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Of course he's controversial, he thinks differently and he wrote his thoughts down. How dare he.

Honestly in this age of this Marxism takeover, his thoughts aren't that crazy.

The guy appears to be sympathetic to white nationalist views, harbors racist ideas, and advocates for authoritarianism. That's a little far to write off as "thinks differently". Given that your account is "throwaway", I'm guessing you sense that there is something to be ashamed of or at least lost in social capital by defending him publicly?

Curtis is Jewish; he's not sympathetic to white nationalist views. The other two accusations are true, but from my point of view they're also true (to a slightly smaller extent) of nearly everyone from the US, so it seems a bit like pointless flaming.

Appears to be sympathetic to? Are there specific examples you take issue with, or is this from hearsay? This account is for political or controversial opinions and is not related to this discussion, no.

This post in which he declares that he isn't white nationalist https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/11/why-i-am-no... is full of weird apologist asides and reads like "I'm not, or maybe I kind of am but not, but I can see why some people are, and other things are bad too, and maybe this isn't so bad".

"So we see that, at present, in the real world of 2007, there is no coherent moral or practical reason to shun white nationalism."

"I am just suggesting that there are many bad reasons not to be a white nationalist."

Then he proceeds to explain that the white nationalist view of the world is silly because it has two sides and doesn't confirm to his five sided race war view. This post is a seriously bad take. Language and words have power and this is the kind that could reach people on the fringe and bring them into the fold. If you have read this thing, does it not give you pause?

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