Pitch Background I read Johann Hari's Stolen Focus recently - this is really critical reading for anyone developing or running any kind of social media service. One part of it really stuck with me ...
All politics is ultimately power, the paradox of tolerance prevents an open society from really existing. The question is, do you want to tolerate nazi’s and thus empower them, pushing for nationalism, privatization, and oligarchy, or do you want to push for egalitarianism, fairness, justice, democracy, human rights, sustainability, etc. If you want the latter, you need to at some level be willing to oppose the opponents of those values beyond merely arguing with them. Because as we see with the right in the USA, if they are allowed to gain power, and they don’t even share the basic values of following the rule of law, words on paper we call a constitution won’t do anything. They will actively plan the destruction of the society that tolerated them.
Discussions on matters of “ought” between people who fundamentally do not share the same core values can not come to any shared conclusions based on any additional “is” statements. That’s the is-ought problem. So dialogue is not ultimately the cure to fascism.
Liberals know this about opposing socialists, and do it all the time, but for some reason they draw the line at opposing nazi’s.
All politics is ultimately power, the paradox of tolerance prevents an open society from really existing. The question is, do you want to tolerate nazi’s and thus empower them, pushing for nationalism, privatization, and oligarchy, or do you want to push for egalitarianism, fairness, justice, democracy, human rights, sustainability, etc. If you want the latter, you need to at some level be willing to oppose the opponents of those values beyond merely arguing with them. Because as we see with the right in the USA, if they are allowed to gain power, and they don’t even share the basic values of following the rule of law, words on paper we call a constitution won’t do anything. They will actively plan the destruction of the society that tolerated them.
Discussions on matters of “ought” between people who fundamentally do not share the same core values can not come to any shared conclusions based on any additional “is” statements. That’s the is-ought problem. So dialogue is not ultimately the cure to fascism.
Liberals know this about opposing socialists, and do it all the time, but for some reason they draw the line at opposing nazi’s.
Well my opinion on this matter is completely opposite to yours. This does happen from time to time if different people interact with each other.
Also I was personally offended by leftists so uhm I better off just hate them forever tbh.