Re:Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
by redis_mlc on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:02PM
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> Guilt by association to one degree is completely valid. The further out you go the more attenuated it gets, but if person C is liked by white supremacists and doesn't openly denounce that fact, it would be accurate to call person C a white supremacist.
No:
- Nobody is obligated to engage in "openly denouncing" anybody.
- The US has a population of 325 million people - who knows what their beliefs are? How often do they change?
- And I'm sure leftists have a daily-changing definition of what "white supremacist" means.
(For those unfamiliar with the OP's illogical argument, that is what the left used to tar Trump as a racist - in reality, Trump never said anything racist. But he didn't denounce some groups to the satisfaction of the left, who would have just kept adding one more group.)
No:
- Nobody is obligated to engage in "openly denouncing" anybody.
- The US has a population of 325 million people - who knows what their beliefs are? How often do they change?
- And I'm sure leftists have a daily-changing definition of what "white supremacist" means.
(For those unfamiliar with the OP's illogical argument, that is what the left used to tar Trump as a racist - in reality, Trump never said anything racist. But he didn't denounce some groups to the satisfaction of the left, who would have just kept adding one more group.)