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Sure - but they can still participate in society. Why shouldn't they? A klansman like Robert Byrd turned his life around. This is after Al Gore's father and he
by fareesh 6y ago
Sure - but they can still participate in society. Why shouldn't they?
A klansman like Robert Byrd turned his life around. This is after Al Gore's father and he filibustered the civil rights act. Byrd went on to mentor Hillary Clinton, and I assume Al Gore's father was an influence on his son - the Vice President of the United States and the first lady, who went on to become a Senator from New York and then almost became President of the United States. You have a candidate right now who has a murky past when it comes to school segregation - as highlighted by his own running mate!
The funny thing is - the Facebook employees fighting with Zuckerberg most likely support all of these people politically, yet the people who espouse similar views today are suddenly irredeemable?
This idea that you can cancel the morally bankrupt out of existence is rooted in some kind of blind weakness. If people don't want to engage with them, that's fine, sit down and let the rest of us clean up. I'm not afraid of engaging with white supremacists, they always lose anyway. Their ideas are weak, dumb and not at all compelling, and the more we let them speak, the weaker their allure will be. History has already proved this. Facebook isn't magic - their ideas are still trash.
- zimpenfish 6y ago> I'm not afraid of engaging with white supremacists, they always lose anyway. The current state of the USA would disagree with you. > the more we let them speak, the weaker their allure will be. Except, somehow, they keep getting elected.
- fareesh 6y agoSeems like the goal is to ensure a specific election outcome then, and the narrative about hate etc. is just a cover.