Allegedly it's for free speech, in practice it's a delusion validation system.
I would particularly like to highlight the paranoiacs as an example of perverse validation. Paranoiacs are obsessed with an adversary; their "safe" space is a place where they can "catch" the culprit. In other words, you validate the paranoiac when you bully them. "You! You're the one who's responsible for all of it! I found you!" Another example is a particular kind of grandiosity, such as the narcissist with the 'misunderstood genius' persona. Being misunderstood constitutes evidence, in their mind, that they are a genius.
Seems to me that 100% of Unz's regular contributors are particularly cracked in the head.
Most likely to cover up Unz's own mental deficiencies. In comparison, he doesn't look quite so confused.
Personnel is policy. Ye shall know them by their fruits. The fruit of Unz is not exactly scholarly advancement.
Exception: I guess James Thompson merely suffers from midwittery. Postwar credentialed intellectual syndrome. When speaking about his actual expertise he doesn't say anything violently wrong. Has the drunk man under the streetlight problem, but not actually wrong.
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