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I saw their comment and frankly I think it's a perfectly reasonable sentiment. That objecting to incarceration practices in America is viewed as contributing to
by anarchodev 7y ago
I saw their comment and frankly I think it's a perfectly reasonable sentiment. That objecting to incarceration practices in America is viewed as contributing to a "political flamewar" by the mods here is surprising to me.
- vonmoltke 7y ago"[F]acists" and "concentration camps" are intentionally incendiary and do not promote a constructive discussion. There is nothing reasonable about that wording at all.
- asdfgasd 7y agoIt's not intentionally incendiary when it's largely true.
- anarchodev 7y agoThese are descriptive terms for what currently exist in the US (and have existed before in the US). If hearing them causes you to feel emotions that don’t allow you to engage in civil discussion I think it’s worth investigating why that is —- not insisting we find less precise terminology.
- asdfgasd 7y agoThere is an implicit assumption that the status-quo in the US can't possibly be bad, because people wouldn't stand for it. Of course, when people do choose to stand against it, it's branded as uncivil. Anything to manufacture consent for the economic degeneracy of the bourgeois, even if it means covering for the fascists.