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Advocating mass violence is violence. Supporting one who advocates mass violence is violence. Producing content used by those who support those who advocate mass violence is violence. Meeting violence w violence is self-defense. The exits are locked & the magic show will continue
This is how you get to the point where men in masks beat unarmed journalists "in self-defense." This is how you get to the point where vigilantes collectively determine which speech calls for public beatings and puzzlingly enact them under the banner of *anti*-fascism.
Obviously, there are serious costs to society when people are routinely dragged out and beaten for saying the wrong things. But there are equally serious, much less visible costs to society when people are *rarely* dragged out and beaten because they have learned to whisper.
I think the delusion is that we can go on and skip ahead to the Glorious Future if everyone knows what not to say — and, necessarily, what might happen to them otherwise. The opposition does not need to *be* dead, but it better play dead convincingly. Again: "anti-"fascism.
This is the axis along which I'm most opposed to the ultra-far left — "how costly should honest conversations about potentially dangerous beliefs be?" The cost MUST be low. We cannot skip steps. Human progress cannot rest on jaws either willingly shut or forcefully broken.
"How on earth did people let those crazy fascists get into power??"
If you try to teach algebra to cats and they fail to learn who’s at fault?
Since good intentions are necessary and sufficient for good outcomes: - either the outcome is not bad (suffering builds character); - or you haven't tried hard enough, go try exactly the same thing again; - or some saboteur must have mixed in evil intentions. Anti-epistemology.
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