The words bounce off them. Me: Responding to bad ideas w/ good ones is best way to defeat them. Them: How can you not see the ideas are bad?
That meme is for ppl who don't realise we have the same aim and that is the thing I need them to realise. Otherwise, it doesn't fit.
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Ahhh. Ok.
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It's very common now, on the left, for those in favour of responding to horrible ideas with violence or shutting it down to claim that...
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...those of us who want to defeat bad ideas with arguments of not thinking the ideas are bad and actually supporting them.
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And we need to keep explaining that we both think, eg Nazism is bad. We just disagree on the best way to tackle those ideas.
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A sad world where vitriol triumphs over veneration.
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