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Why are you drawing an equivalence between "murder all non-white people" and "give power to the working class"?

It's amazing to me that you frame it that way and probably think you're doing so in good faith.

Anyway, I'm reasonably confident that if we tallied the deaths resulting from racism and collectivism, collectivism would win handily.

You framed it that way, look at the words you chose: racism, Nazism, white supremacy. The overarching ideal of all that can very simply be summarized as "non-white people shouldn't exist". The ideal of collectivism is "power to the people."

You took the worst possible interpretation of the former and the best possible interpretation of the latter. In what world do you think anyone believes this was done in good faith?

I already told you in the other thread that you have a different definition of socialism than the people you're talking to.

It's not bad faith. You need to accept you are working off a different vocabulary. Your shitty media abuses this to stoke the divide.

Neither definition is more correct, but it stands to reason that people arguing in favour of "socialism in politics" aren't Stalinists, for fucks sake. If anyone tells you that, they are trying to rile you up. And if you believe them, you're a fool.

What's the best possible interpretation of Nazism, white supremacy, and racism?

Best possible? Someone could probably do better, but off the top of my head, "if we aggregate metrics from populations using a sampling method other than a uniform random distribution, we should expect to see differences" probably approximates it.

What is the worst possible interpretation of socialism, communism, collectivism, and the new Woke cult?

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