Vassenor wrote:Thanatttynia wrote:The suggestion that this type of rhetoric is socially acceptable (let alone, as some have said, fundamental to politics or commentary in the West) is disingenuous. These people are drawn to this toxic shit because it's taboo. Fox News and Trump aren't far-right, they're just unwilling to risk their own popularity with the far-right by denouncing them.
So yeah, like I said, shilling for them.
Well, 'shilling' implies they're doing it in service of some greater goal, which I find hard to believe. In any case, it's not socially acceptable.