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 dunno, seems like far-right views are gaining popularity. At least here in the States.
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Replying to @tmamone
'Have substance' = have sophisticated arguments, depth, something that can be intellectually engaged with. We know they have popularity but this is not based on its intellectual depth. There's not much to engage with after you've tried to explain why caring abt others is good
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Replying to @HPluckrose @tmamone
You and I could discuss at length, calling on many scholarly sources & much intellectual history, whether the better way to achieve equality is rooted in foregrounding identity & discourses of power or universalism and emptying identity categories of social significance.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @tmamone
That isn't there on the far-right. There's nothing of substance to engage with if we are immovable on whether women, PoC & the LGBT deserve equal rights, freedoms & opportunities. Best we can do is try to understand the psychology & move people on the fringes back.
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Which reminds me, I assume you're probably not a big Amanda Marcotte fan, but she did write an interesting article about how to combat far-right college speakers' ideas without fitting the Regressive Left stereotype:https://www.salon.com/2018/03/12/progressives-can-win-the-free-speech-debate-but-not-by-fighting-on-the-rights-turf/ …
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"Right-wing student group finds some terrible person who hates huge swaths of humanity for arbitrary reasons to give speech that presumably will be chock-full of bigotry masquerading as intellectual discourse." Can't combat them when you dismiss them like this before you start.
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