"One of the hardest lessons of the last year has been that being laughed at is one of the greatest weapons an enemy can wield. Donald Trump went from running gag to Republican frontrunner while Jimmy Fallon was still mussing his hair, and the “style guide” for the Nazi publication The Daily Stormer revealed that couching racist ideology in “LOL jk” terms is a deliberate strategy used to disarm their opponents. The Trump administration has played out as a near-unceasing comedy of errors, but those errors have profound and long-reaching consequences, and rolling your eyes at them doesn’t lessen the damage. Supreme Leader Snoke dismisses Kylo Ren as “a child in a mask,” but that only leaves him open to counterattack; when Snoke senses Kylo’s resolve has stiffened and his doubts vanished, he never considers the possibility that the course of action he’s decided on is to cut him in half."
Quelle: https://slate.com/arts/2017/12/the-l...dangerous.html