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It just depends on what minority you use. Blacks/LGTB/Jews? Not many people would consider it. White supremacists/Nazis/Islamic Fundamentalist? It's already m
by ergl 7y ago
It just depends on what minority you use.
Blacks/LGTB/Jews? Not many people would consider it.
White supremacists/Nazis/Islamic Fundamentalist? It's already mainstream.
- comex 7y agoWhat exactly are the “great injustices” being inflicted on white supremacists, Nazis, and Islamic fundamentalists? We certainly aren’t going around killing them in purges...
- ergl 7y agoInjustices are subjective. Nazis would consider it a great injustice that we don't allow them to go around killing other minorities, or that we made Nazi parties illegal in the western world. What I'm getting at is that the OP statement can be bent to fit whatever ideology you want, and with that be able to get widespread support to "repress" minorities. It's not only "evil" people the ones repressing others.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoYou’re absolutely right, Nazis should be squashed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
- alasdair_ 7y ago>What exactly are the “great injustices” being inflicted on white supremacists, Nazis, and Islamic fundamentalists? Killing the children of Islamic fundamentalists in drone strikes. Holding them for years without any trial or recourse in gitmo. Torture. I'm sure there are other things.
- hedgedoops2 7y agoThose are all islamic fundamentalists though. More precisely, we are talking about the people targeted or captured during the 'war on terror'. The pertinent category here is "whoever is considered an 'enemy' in 'war'" - they will get their rights trampled.
- cgio 7y agoIsn’t the protection of rights of members of this category the subject of the Geneva convention?
- eli_gottlieb 7y ago>Blacks/LGTB/Jews? Not many people would consider it. "Some Jews get killed so everyone else can have Great Justice" is the modal case of Jew-hatred. Remember, Hitler thought he was the good guy.
- ergl 7y agoDefinitely, and I'm not trying to say anything like "both sides". You absolutely need moral judgement. All I'm saying is that it's quite easy to fall into a mental pattern where oppression becomes acceptable. Most people in Germany during WWII were not Nazis, and yet many of them happily accepted the status quo that made what happened possible.