[imagine99]

That may or may not be a correct assessment but you will have a hard time convincing anyone, moronic or non-moronic, without any real arguments and counter-examples.

I for one would have loved some more substance to your post...

[SCdF]

Have you read the article that is the subject of this thread? You could start with that

[fastball]

So... you too are unable to actually articulate the issues you have with it?

[bugglebeetle]

He uncritically cites the author of “The Fascist Manifesto” as a “patron saint.” You can safely disregard anything that does this as idiocy.

[Acrobatic_Road]

He is better known as the author of the Futurist Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_Futurism

[meheleventyone]

He’s pretty famously an author of both that and the Fascist Manifesto that followed a few years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto

[peteforde]

I'd never heard of him until today.

I would stand up to defend your right to read and enjoy a good book by a person that you aren't an expert in.

In general, I try to start by extending the benefit of doubt. It seems like nobody here stopped to wonder if pmarca had any idea that the dude wrote the Fascist Manifesto. And if he didn't, does he still deserve to be shamed for enjoying his other work without Googling him first?

What if you found out the author of the last thing you read was a fascist after the fact? Should we be mad at you?

Do you Google the author of everything you read? If so, that sounds exhausting.

[bugglebeetle]

If you call one of the fathers of fascist ideology your “patron saint,” in the context of also listing several other right wing thinkers, I think you know what you’re doing and should expect corresponding disdain.

[fastball]

Are there no left-wing thinkers in that rather extensive list?

[fastball]

The irony of calling other people uncritical when using logical fallacies to make your point.

https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-critical-thinking/log...

[bugglebeetle]

The irony of not understanding what ad hominem is while accusing others of it.