Should I engage morons? Please answer & retweet
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Replying to @iyad_elbaghdadi
@HPluckrose wrote a good article on this subject:https://areomagazine.com/2016/12/14/the-value-of-arguing-with-extremists-building-a-moderate-center/ …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
3 problems w/this take: 1. Extremism *isn't* new. At all. Any take that it is is basically saying that European colonialism, genocide, and..
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Replying to @mar_de_palabras @Tina_Russell and
oppression aren't extremism. Why? Because they talk nicely? 2. PoC have been arguing against white supremacy *for literally 100s of years.*
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Not really. The idea of extremism is new if actions we consider extreme now are not. Groups invaded, exploited, enslaved, murdered others.
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It wasn't extremism to advocate exiling or denying rights to sections of society in the past coz this was mainstream & normal.
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