#edgelording

[theremina]

[terseblog]

What the right gets wrong about Putin | The Spectator

A fracture on the international right may seem small fry given everything that is going on right now. But it is worth loitering over. Because in recent years an interesting divide has grown among conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic. On one side are the Cold War warriors and their successors ...

“Part of what is going on here is known as ‘edgelording’, by which people spend most of their lives online revelling in saying the unsayable about the Holocaust, Putin and more. They may well know it to be wrong, but they get a quasi-sexual thrill from saying such things. Perhaps because it is the nearest thing to a sexual thrill they have ever known.” –– Douglas Murray

[one-thousand-springs]

There’s one thing I’ve always wondered, but am afraid to know the answer. All those great songs and stories... the swelling romances that we base our hopes on, are desperate to experience even a moment of... were the writers describing how they loved, or how they wanted to be loved?

Has anyone actually been loved like that?

[atrahasis]

Latin American-esque ethnic demographics is probably what they mean by “white genocide”.