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>The alt-right folks are counting on people to naively interpret the phrase literally. Maybe. But by playing their game, you're giving them power. If you don't
by benj111 4y ago
>The alt-right folks are counting on people to naively interpret the phrase literally.
Maybe. But by playing their game, you're giving them power. If you don't play the game, they don't win. I didn't know about the politics of the phrase until you and others pointed it out. Is it better that I don't now repeat the phrase?
- freejazz 4y agoThat poster is not playing their game, you are. Here insisting on how your ignorance of their game makes the phrase innocuous, even after the fact. Do you think it would better if you repeated the phrase? Who would that be serving?
- faeriechangling 4y agoJust because you want to be contrarian against everything white supremacists do so you “don’t play their game” doesn’t mean that you aren’t acting as a white supremacist propagandist by doing so. Their game is exploiting this lapse of common sense that many people seem to have who refuse to take the obviously winning strategy of just ignoring this and who instead must constantly fight for the sake of fighting even if the social consequences are terrible.
- freejazz 4y agoWhat did I do that makes you think I'm a "contrarian" against white supremacists? >Their game is exploiting this lapse of common sense that many people seem to have who refuse to take the obviously winning strategy of just ignoring this and who instead must constantly fight for the sake of fighting even if the social consequences are terrible. Who is fighting? I responded to a post in a thread, here, a place where we discuss things by posting. Everything you wrote appears to be a huge projection.