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>"19th century phrenology should be listened to over
Again, not stated in the manifesto, just a strawman. Uncle Ted's point is merely that leftists will resist any and all suggestions that some people are superior to other people by any metric, because leftists find strength itself unsettling. Kaczyznski himself repeatedly makes the point that he is not himself suggesting other races are inferior, he's just trying to discuss the psychology of the leftist.

This is also a typical leftist response to Ted, to insert extra words and ideas into the opponent's argument before responding to it; to deliberately have bad faith, because everything is assumed to have some evil hidden motive on the other side. The leftist is not inclined to notice that this rhetorical tactic could be used on anyone, over any issue, to similar effect, which reveals it as a tactic, not as a way of discerning truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY&t=1m45s

To me it's interesting how much this worldview intersects with narcissism as a culture. Narcissists tend to be extremely interested in hypocrisy. If a narcissist is someone who has chosen to project a particular image of who they are, they must assume others are doing the same thing, and this is what makes hypocrisy so orgasmic; they've caught somebody else out and can shred their identity for the pleasure of it. They never consider that maybe not everyone is playing the same game as themselves.

Hence, the ease with which the leftist (who is deeply embroiled in all aspects of the mainstream, including narcissism) reads bad motives into everyone. It's not hard to believe that every argument is a facade when that's true for you too.