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a person can think trump is a self-serving, sociopathic idiot, and still defend his humanness against inflammatory, repressive impulses like this. neoliberal me
by clairity 6y ago
a person can think trump is a self-serving, sociopathic idiot, and still defend his humanness against inflammatory, repressive impulses like this. neoliberal media like npr and nyt have lost this perspective entirely and have thrown in with the pitchforkers, so it's unfortunately not surprising that this simplistic view has infiltrated this discussion.
moreover, it's better for the future if we make the population aware of, and thereby immune to, his type of purely self-serving rhetoric, than try to erase him from the discussion, and thereby violate all kinds of human rights, let alone human decency. it's the same distinction as that of training an immune system for future infection vs. neutralizing one virus particle.
- mlthoughts2018 6y agoReally, no. > a person can think trump is a self-serving, sociopathic idiot, and still defend his humanness against inflammatory, repressive impulses like this. You can do this, it just equates to a significant basic moral failing.
- minikites 6y ago>his humanness Based on how he's treated everyone around him for his entire life, he doesn't have any. >it's better for the future if we make the population aware of, and thereby immune to, his type of purely self-serving rhetoric, than try to erase him from the discussion, and thereby violate all kinds of human rights Then why did threats and violence decline when he was deplatformed? Why did an insurrection happen on January 6th when he was on Twitter and why didn't one happen on March 4th (the other important date in this "conspiracy") when he wasn't on Twitter? I think you have your cause and effect backwards. Giving terrible people a platform doesn't inoculate anyone, it just spreads more poison. I don't need to be exposed to a particular prejudice to think that prejudice is bad.