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Aella
@Aella_Girl
One cheap debate trick is reframing opposing opinions as having some sort of 'moral failure' and therefore foregoing all rights. For example, lots of attempts to shut down 'open debate' do so by framing the opposing opinions not as wrong, but as as "interruptive"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
For example, this piece of work that showed up on my FB feed. They're justifying shutting down dissenting speech not because of wrongness, but because they "exhaust" people and implying everyone has to stop what they're doing to turn around to "deal with" these opinions.
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Azura, daedric prince
@_azura85_
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@Aella_Girl
I don’t see how ‘black people aren’t people’ is an opinion. It’s wrong on such a basic level that treating it with validity in such a way is dangerous. I understand you want to keep an open mind about as many things as possible but you are wrong on this.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@_azura85_
I disagree. It is an opinion and I think it can be reasoned with. Did you ever hear about that one black guy who 'deconverted' like 200 neonazis because he simply went around and engaged with their opinions instead of shutting them down with moral righteousness?
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Azura, daedric prince
@_azura85_
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@Aella_Girl
That’s wonderful but not relevant. There is a difference between engaging an individual with a poorly reasoned set of world views and giving a platform to someone who is not going to be reasoned with and does not care about the truth (Such as Richard Spencer)