Darryl, I’ll be more critical than your other commenters and say that while I don’t plan to join the mob, I don’t exactly blame them either. When you tweet implying that Hitler is in heaven and that Nazis in Paris are preferable to the Olympic opening ceremonies, you naturally come off as a Nazi sympathizer.
Darryl, I’ll be more critical than your other commenters and say that while I don’t plan to join the mob, I don’t exactly blame them either. When you tweet implying that Hitler is in heaven and that Nazis in Paris are preferable to the Olympic opening ceremonies, you naturally come off as a Nazi sympathizer.
I (and many other fans of your podcast) honestly don’t get how you sound so nuanced and empathetic in many of your podcasts, and then just have such extreme and one-sided tweets. If I hadn’t listened to so many hours of your content before I’d seen your tweets, I too would have dismissed you as just a Nazi.
When all of this dies down, I hope you will take the experience as an opportunity to grow, rather than become even more extreme as a result. If that sounds crazy, I am simply repeating what I remember you saying in the opening of one of your Jim Jones podcasts: when one group of people think you’re human garbage and another group thinks you are amazing, it’s very tempting to completely tune out the first group and bask solely in the opinions of the second group. But it’s a dangerous path to go down.
Hope you take all this in the spirit in which it was intended.
It's also, IMHO, a bad strategy. I think Darryl provides an incredibly valuable perspective and it's frustrating to see someone make it easy for their contributions to be dismissed and have their spread limited, no matter how much fun trolling might be. We all know how the world works and how unfair it can be to alternative viewpoints. Why shoot yourself in the foot before even stepping onto the battlefield of ideas?
A couple weeks ago on X he wrote that he uses it as "the place to vent my spleen".
I wonder if a writer as careful and rigorous as Darryl is, constantly immersing himself in the worst horrors of humanity, needs that kind of dark humor as an outlet.
I am not on Twitter but I have heard DC say he trolls there. I have also heard him say that his political views have been described as being to the right of Attila the Hun. His work doesn't reflect that. It is clear to me that DC doesn't allow his political views to take over his historical work which is something I appreciate.
I agree with all of this. It freaks me out, or maybe disappoints me, that Darryl seems to (sort of, almost) *like* scary tyrants. Darryl has the capacity to tolerate so much nuance, paradox, and pain, but then he longs for a “strong” male leader to impose order from above. Tyrants aren’t strong people—they’re usually narcissistic and antisocial. A concrete, black-and-white political order is not going to undo your traumatic childhood. Bullying gay men doesn’t make you strong. If you want a model of masculine strength, look for men who actually deal with their pain.
Narcissism and antisocialism are strong traits. Narcissism is self confidence, and antisocialism is self reliance. Only difference is those traits are present in someone you don't like.
You are exactly why I am glad Darryl Cooper exists. Uncomfortable and honest conversations make men like you intellectual cowards and interrupt the ability to see the world outside the paradigm of your inherited program. I would bet money you would be diagnosed with a low T count. Coward.
As others have pointed out, Twitter/X (or any social media, for that matter) isn't always the best place to have discourse. Lots of people who are normally good at articulating points in longform writing or in podcasts, succumb to the dopamine hit that comes from sending out a hot take on social media.
It's why I don't follow "outrage porn" accounts on Twitter/X. Those who create the accounts may sometimes raise valid points, but ultimately, those accounts serve to fuel their dopamine addiction.
Yeah, huge agree. Twitter brings out the worst and those tweets do come across antisemitic, as does implying that the Holocaust sorta just happened and minimizing it. But Mr. Cooper has much to offer.
Darryl, I’ll be more critical than your other commenters and say that while I don’t plan to join the mob, I don’t exactly blame them either. When you tweet implying that Hitler is in heaven and that Nazis in Paris are preferable to the Olympic opening ceremonies, you naturally come off as a Nazi sympathizer.
I (and many other fans of your podcast) honestly don’t get how you sound so nuanced and empathetic in many of your podcasts, and then just have such extreme and one-sided tweets. If I hadn’t listened to so many hours of your content before I’d seen your tweets, I too would have dismissed you as just a Nazi.
When all of this dies down, I hope you will take the experience as an opportunity to grow, rather than become even more extreme as a result. If that sounds crazy, I am simply repeating what I remember you saying in the opening of one of your Jim Jones podcasts: when one group of people think you’re human garbage and another group thinks you are amazing, it’s very tempting to completely tune out the first group and bask solely in the opinions of the second group. But it’s a dangerous path to go down.
Hope you take all this in the spirit in which it was intended.
It's also, IMHO, a bad strategy. I think Darryl provides an incredibly valuable perspective and it's frustrating to see someone make it easy for their contributions to be dismissed and have their spread limited, no matter how much fun trolling might be. We all know how the world works and how unfair it can be to alternative viewpoints. Why shoot yourself in the foot before even stepping onto the battlefield of ideas?
A couple weeks ago on X he wrote that he uses it as "the place to vent my spleen".
I wonder if a writer as careful and rigorous as Darryl is, constantly immersing himself in the worst horrors of humanity, needs that kind of dark humor as an outlet.
Then that's how he's going to be associated.
Agree.
I am not on Twitter but I have heard DC say he trolls there. I have also heard him say that his political views have been described as being to the right of Attila the Hun. His work doesn't reflect that. It is clear to me that DC doesn't allow his political views to take over his historical work which is something I appreciate.
I agree with all of this. It freaks me out, or maybe disappoints me, that Darryl seems to (sort of, almost) *like* scary tyrants. Darryl has the capacity to tolerate so much nuance, paradox, and pain, but then he longs for a “strong” male leader to impose order from above. Tyrants aren’t strong people—they’re usually narcissistic and antisocial. A concrete, black-and-white political order is not going to undo your traumatic childhood. Bullying gay men doesn’t make you strong. If you want a model of masculine strength, look for men who actually deal with their pain.
Narcissism and antisocialism are strong traits. Narcissism is self confidence, and antisocialism is self reliance. Only difference is those traits are present in someone you don't like.
Incredible...
".....dangerous path to go down."
You are exactly why I am glad Darryl Cooper exists. Uncomfortable and honest conversations make men like you intellectual cowards and interrupt the ability to see the world outside the paradigm of your inherited program. I would bet money you would be diagnosed with a low T count. Coward.
As others have pointed out, Twitter/X (or any social media, for that matter) isn't always the best place to have discourse. Lots of people who are normally good at articulating points in longform writing or in podcasts, succumb to the dopamine hit that comes from sending out a hot take on social media.
It's why I don't follow "outrage porn" accounts on Twitter/X. Those who create the accounts may sometimes raise valid points, but ultimately, those accounts serve to fuel their dopamine addiction.
Agree
Yeah, huge agree. Twitter brings out the worst and those tweets do come across antisemitic, as does implying that the Holocaust sorta just happened and minimizing it. But Mr. Cooper has much to offer.