Antifa gain no legitimacy by fighting Nazis, for they are detrimental to the fight. Their violence doesn't deter Nazis, but emboldens them.
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Evidence? See my thread in response to
@trudyferrer. We *do* have evidence that what we've BEEN doing for last 50 years DOESN'T work....1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @EINS_Institute @trudyferrer
It still works better than violently witch-hunting Nazis in the streets...
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @trudyferrer
Again--what's your evidence? I think that's an open question. I just think there are moral/ethical reasons we don't want to go that far....
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Replying to @EINS_Institute @trudyferrer
The alt-right is a backlash against efforts to stifle right-wing ideas. I think we can only win this by engaging the ideas & defeating them
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @EINS_Institute
It's hard to argue with non-thinkers. Like religion - you only make your views stronger by understanding others. My two laymen cents
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Replying to @trudyferrer @EINS_Institute
They're non-thinkers because no one ever tried to make them think. We beat Nazis in WW2, but never confronted them in the arena of debate.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @trudyferrer
That's literally how clear majorities came around to progressive ideals & imposed their will at the ballot box and in the courts.
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Replying to @EINS_Institute @trudyferrer
If we'd decisively defeated them in debate, we wouldn't have Trump in power right now...
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @trudyferrer
Not true. What happened was Trump was able to link their small, defeated minority up w/ OTHER disenfranchised minorities who felt ignored 1/
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Yes, they felt disenfranchised because they were disenfranchised by the left's moralistic masturbation. This is the root of the problem.
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The thought-leaders of Western civilization believed they could just call things sexist or racist, and things would change. It didn't work.
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