Re:Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts twee...
by dang on Monday June 05, 2023 @03:22AM
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Would you please stop posting ideological flamewar comments to HN? You've done it repeatedly in this thread. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
We've had to ask you this before, so if you'd please fix this, we'd be grateful.
Lets start with a true statement of yours:
> Almost all Americans don't like racism.
This is a true fact. However it says nothing about systemic racism, or racist cops, or racist politicians. Me being a left-wing bigot would state that the latter is bad and should be abolished, and might make a statement like: “Anyone working against the abolition of systemic racism is part of the problem.” You will probably say this is a bigoted statement, and deserves the same scrutiny and moderation as those who claim we should further systemic racism, and state something like “Cops are justified in policing black majority neighborhoods harder than other neighborhoods”.
This falls into the paradox of tolerance. See if you disallow both our speeches, as they are equally bigoted, you are favoring the status quo, and if systemic racism does indeed exist, you are tolerating it’s continued existence. This is where your horseshoe theory fails. Reality is much more like a fishhook theory. Where the centrist take will always be closer to the far right.
I’ve been playing into your rhetoric, but just so you know, you cannot call anti-fascism bigoted without finding your self in a paradox. A slave owner that hates their slaves is an abuse, a slave that hates their master is liberation.