• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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        26 days ago

        I hope so too, but they’re also wrong and their mom’s a hoe.

        We can prefer a reasoned, philosophical discourse on acceptance and tolerance, and underline it with the threat of the natural consequence befitting intolerant hate mongering assholes.

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        25 days ago

        I hope those people don’t think violence is the best way to defeat the KKK, but instead think this kind of violence is too nice for a member of the KKK

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            25 days ago

            Which itself is a valid philosophy. I might not believe in it, I personally think you cannot afford to be pacifist in a world that is willing to use violence against you. But I’d much rather sit with a pacifist (or someone else who has a philosophy I don’t believe in, yet can understand) than a racist.

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              24 days ago

              Thankfully you don’t have to choose! You could instead sit with the people eager to actively fight against racism instead of making up excuses to let thrive

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                22 days ago
                1. If I only ever wanted to be around people who have my own, objectively right opinions, I would be alone all the time

                2. Not willing to use violence at all is, in my opinion, a valid opinion. One I do not share, because, as I said, the world is inherently violent.

                3. Given the choice, I much rather work/be around/support people who agree with me on the basics.

                4. This is the classic problem of the left: if you are not part of my specific part of the movement, you are barely better than a racist. I have happily stood in a protest beside people who have a very different view (eg. Christians who take “love your neighbour” serious and communists who believe that we need a oppressive government to enforce their utopia), yet agree on the basics (racism bad).

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              No we don’t. A blanket “violence bad” philosophy is protecting those who do violence to others. Sometimes violence is necessary and this fact needs to be understood by everyone. Especially with the way things are. Some people can’t be reasoned with.

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                24 days ago

                This needs to be written across the sky in flaming letters. (Along with “Be excellent to each other”.)

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          24 days ago

          “As an apolitical centrist, I think punching a member of the KKK is just as bad as the KKK lynching innocent people. Violence is always bad.

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        24 days ago

        Changing their minds like that one guy is the best way. Violence is far quicker, more effective, and scales better. I’m not celebrating any of that mind you, but it’s like that - and that’s the way it is.