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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:52PM (#23532168)
I think many of the commenters would openly embrace the label of complacency. That's part of living in a country with a diversity of views; sometimes, when you see people doing something terrible, you have to accept that they don't see it that way rather than going on a warpath to exclude them from polite society.
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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by moolcool on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:21PM (#23532492)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by koheripbal on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:03PM (#23534510)
"You either with us or against us" is the hallmark call of extremists.

It was first used politically by Vladimir Lenin, then Benito Mussolini, and more recently by George W Bush after 9/11.

It's not surprising that modern liberals are so keen on its use.

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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by moolcool on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:15PM (#23540886)
Non-complacency is totally different from "with us or against us" mentality. Like the Bush example, you can simultaneously stand in opposition to terror and extremism, and also be in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. You don't have to agree with 100% of the principle of someone who you share _some_ principles with.
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