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They aren't missing context. They are ignoring context: walls, fences, racial laws, deportations, camp. "Oh are walls fascist now" is a bit to obviously naive
by Avshalom 5y ago
They aren't missing context. They are ignoring context: walls, fences, racial laws, deportations, camp.
"Oh are walls fascist now" is a bit to obviously naive bad faith.
"Oh are racial laws and [detention] camps fascist now" a bit too unambiguous.
Fences and deportations though feel like things that good faith actors should debate though. By cutting a list of symptoms down to just those two it... Well we've got sibling posts debate the merits of analogies to the abstract concept of fences. Pretty successfully derailing a nice article about some interesting monuments.