Book Review: Fussell on Class

His true intentions to...what? He's obviously not hiding his true intentions, he's writing a book review. And you are engaging in a childish ad hominem attack.

What relevance could some things that you have no proof he either said in the first place (yes, me and everyone else here can fabricate screenshots with ease) or still believes have to this particular book review?

Even if he does hold a belief that you label "horrifyingly racist", why would you assume that his "true intentions" pervade everything else he writes? That's not charitable at minimum, but more to the point it's conspiracy theory whack job level implausible. Do you seriously believe he's secretly trying to advance his pro-Jew anti-Black agenda with this...book review?

I promise you his words don't just sound smart, they are smart. He isn't a pseudo-intellectual, he's just a regular old intellectual. The fact that he might hold, or once held, some ideas that you or others place on the "wrongthink" list is irrelevant to the correctness of other arguments he makes.

I am quite sure that vast amounts of public scrutiny would uncover wrongthink in your past too, held09218.

Can you explain why the emails make him horrifyingly racist? It didn't come off that way to me.

The original poster is clearly annoyed by Scott's interest in neoreaction, perhaps even more than by his supposed racism. Never mind that one of the most popular schools of thought in present-day Chinese politics, viz. the "New Confucians", might be quite properly described as Neoreaction With Chinese Characteristics - and that this alone means that understanding it is hugely important; many people will still regard any interest in these ideas as anathema.

But pseudo is the only type. Reading Fussel books gives me this idea.

You all must be his biggest fans with the amount of energy you go into repeating these claims everywhere his work appears.