> This is a core argument that keeps getting spouted, and it's irrational nonsense.
Because apparently recently "words are violence" and now we even hear "silence is violence".
This is so 1789 French Revolution style.
Because apparently recently "words are violence" and now we even hear "silence is violence".
This is so 1789 French Revolution style.
I honestly don't care about most of the political dramas of the day, but by not caring, I'm now somehow guilty of supporting the status quo! This is bonkers.
You seem to be repeating yourself.
> the same as losing your head for being on the wrong side of the committee of public safety.
Your pattern recognition engine must have some problems. In 1789 and the following years people were vilified and arrested (and eventually killed by truckloads, but that's not the point) because they were too moderate or not extreme enough compared to the radicals leading the "new culture".
Here's what St just said in the good old 90's (1790s):
> "We must not only punish traitors, but all people who are not enthusiastic. There are only two kinds of citizens: the good and the bad. The Republic owes to the good its protection. To the bad it owes only death."
And Robespierre:
> "There are only two parties in France: the people and its enemies. We must exterminate those miserable villains who are eternally conspiring against the rights of man... We must exterminate all our enemies.” "
If you don't see any parallel with what's happening right now (the insidious dichotomy between good and bad), minus the guillotine, I am not sure what else I can tell you.