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I'd hate to be either of the two students the author throws under the bus with nary a sentence of context (the bus here being thousands of words describing Leni
by arcadius 7y ago
I'd hate to be either of the two students the author throws under the bus with nary a sentence of context (the bus here being thousands of words describing Lenin's atrocities). Just think, one moment you're unable to sufficiently articulate your feelings on hate speech in front of a class to satisfy your professor, the next moment you've been lumped in with a mass murderer!
- ungamedplayer 7y agoTo be fair modern activist groups like anyone who disagrees with them to Hitler.. so the student is likely in good company.
- arcadius 7y agoSeems to be a common game with ignorant right and ignorant left (I can think of a million instances of ignorant right-wing people rambling on incessantly about the "socialist" part of national socialist german workers' party). The difference I suppose is that fascism is a far-right ideal and not a far-left one. Also the fact that the far-right in the United States are in some cases literal neonazis.
- justsubmit 7y ago> fascism is a far-right ideal and not a far-left one. That myth underlies much of the misunderstanding in contemporary political discourse.
- crazydoggers 7y agoI’m not sure how you justify this? If one is going to define politics along a spectrum like left to right, fascism is going to be grouped with other political systems that tend toward nationalism and nativist policies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
- justsubmit 7y agoControl the terminology -> control the discourse -> control the narrative -> control politics -> control everything. That's how the Left operates. cf. Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals" In other words, Wikipedia is not an unbiased source. Rather than throw links at you, suffice it to say that there are other criteria by which political spectra may be defined. Let the reader understand.
- crazydoggers 7y agoWell it doesn’t really suffice it to say. You can’t expect the reader to take your word for it. Wikipedia at least has primary sources that anyone can examine. Sounds like conspiracy theory claptrap.
- justsubmit 7y agoWell, why don't you review this source from Wikipedia, then, and decide whether it's claptrap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_senior_thesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_senior_thesis
- stOneskull 7y agoI think left and right have no meaning in a one-party totalitarian state
- mirimir 7y agoTFA says this: > I recalled this curious concept of freedom when a student defended complete freedom of speech except for hate speech—and hate speech included anything he disagreed with. Whatever did not seem hateful was actually a “dog-whistle.” That seems pretty clear, and just the opposite of Evelyn Beatrice Hall's paraphrase of Voltaire's position:[0] “I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.” 0) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/
- Blackthorn 7y agoThat and, assuming those students are even real. Regardless of the truth or falsehood of the contents, it's quite the strawman regardless.