It's not hard at all. It just doesn't take very long, especially when talking to fellow lefties. It's blindingly obvious why far-right views are wrong. If you think it's harmful to say far-right views don't have any substance, can you say what the substance is? https://twitter.com/Daniel_Rivieria/status/979762815681445888 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I doubt whether or not they have substance being the point. But then again the problem is that the far-right dialogue seeps into liberal/conservative dialogue especially with people like Douglas Murray. Questions must be asked such as: "What anti migrant views go too far?"
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Replying to @Daniel_Rivieria
What did you mean was harmful then? We were saying it's quick and easy to condemn the far-right because there's no substance to it. It's straightforward to say 'racism, sexism, homophobia is wrong because people have rights and dignity. Now what?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's just more complicated than that tho. What constitutes racism and sexism can be broad or narrow, obvious or insidiously obscure. Anti Islam views can be in good faith or radically bigoted and sometimes it's hard for people to tell the difference.
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Replying to @Daniel_Rivieria @HPluckrose
So it's within the big discourses we have about minorities and human rights where we have to be careful what we're saying doesn't play into bigotry. I'm not calling anyone a bigot simply asking for a degree of reflexivity when these issues are brought up.
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Replying to @Daniel_Rivieria @HPluckrose
I personally know a large group of self styled liberals who think saying bad things about black people doesn't constitute racism if you have some statistics you can selectively cherry pick and interpret. (Not associating you with those people of course just an example)
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OK, but I'm going to leave it because we were actually talking about whether or not there is anything of substance on the far-right to engage with intellectually like there is on the far-left & this doesn't relate at all.
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