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>> Pointing out fascism and racism doesn't turn people fascist or racist. First of all you're slightly modifying OP's comment. He was not talking about actual
by misja111 8y ago
>> Pointing out fascism and racism doesn't turn people fascist or racist.
First of all you're slightly modifying OP's comment. He was not talking about actual fascism or racism that was pointed out, but about the abuse of those terms to silence critics regardless if they were racists or not.
If this kind of qualification is used purely a means to silence critics and it is used repeatedly without proper justification then yes, it can actually turn some people who used to have more moderate views into actual racists or fascists.
- mercurysmessage 8y ago"First of all you're slightly modifying OP's comment. He was not talking about actual fascism or racism that was pointed out, but about the abuse of those terms to silence critics regardless if they were racists or not." Most of the time they are what they are being called. Ha, again, calling someone racist doesn't turn them racist, makes absolutely zero sense.
- CompelTechnic 8y agoThe comment from mercurysmessage is even a good example of shame being used to silence dissent, which is ironic considering that the conversation was about shame being used to silence dissent. mercurysmessage shamed you, by implicitly calling you a racist, for being of the opinion that people who were not racist were shamed by being called racist.
- mercurysmessage 8y agoNo, I did not.