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Devoted humanitarians don't commit acts of violence or intimidate other people through it.
by aaron-lebo 9y ago
Devoted humanitarians don't commit acts of violence or intimidate other people through it.
- Apocryphon 9y agoPerhaps they're humanitarians in the sense that they're in the humanities; humanitarianism may or may not be orthogonal.
- kingkawn 9y agoI think they do those exact things when up against fascists. The people they’re fighting are those who espouse racial superiorities and commit acts of cultural and physical violence to intimidate the populations of people they’ve chosen to see as inferior. Appeals to the centrist middle are only meaningful insofar as that same center is willing to act to protect the people being targeted by hate speech. If the center is frozen by its own obsolete sense of propriety in the face of this socially destabilizing hatred then I think it is not unreasonable to see a small group take the call to action on themselves.