If your argument is that engaging w/extremists will expand a moderate center that will create change, you need to account for that failure
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You need to account for moderate liberalism's failure to diminish the ongoing oppression of PoC, at least in the US where I live.
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You need to account for the reality that moderate Euro/Amer liberalism has not yet stopped exploiting other people in the world.
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To recommend reasonable engagement rather than yelling & tribalism?
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That's a false dichotomy. I don't believe those are the only options. But beyond that, I see no basis whatsoever for your faith in the...
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"reasonable engagement" you describe. And I no acknowledgment of the real emotional/psychological harm oppressed people can suffer...
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when we try to engage in the kinds of conversations you seem to advocate. You also seem to ignore that we have been *trying* to have...
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...these conversations w/people across the political spectrum & have been met again and again with *un*reasonable responses. What you're
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advocating as though it's a new tactic *isn't* new to PoC and other marginalized groups. I'm not contending it should be abandoned, but I...
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am contending that it isn't enough. It never has been & it never will be. It's a *much* harder & more complex task than your piece suggests
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I haven't suggested it will solve all the worlds problems. It's just better than extremism.
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