• alliswell33 @lemmy.sdf.org
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    15 hours ago

    The same people cheering this on (see Loomer) are the ones who told everyone they had the moral high ground by being against political violence when it happened to their boy. They don’t mean what they say.

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      Never believe that anti-Semites fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

      • Jean-Paul Sartre

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