(September 10, 2018 at 10:44 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(September 10, 2018 at 9:54 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: It could be a case of carrot and stick here; a vocal minority of left-wing activists make the rest look like total idiots, and then, people becoming disillusioned with the left come across white supremacists talking about how they're the real oppressed ones, and how the left is powerful enough to destroy their free speech and, lacking the sort of critical apparatus necessary to properly process it and think "they're talking shit. I may be losing faith in the left's power to actually effect the sort of change we need, but there's no way this is a viable alternative" like an intelligent person would, buy into it.
I'm not sure why opposition to the screechy left is taken as approval of the nutjob right. You can dislike one without supporting the other, you know.
A position I share, but, honestly, throughout the past 82 pages of this thread, you've shown you're edging towards the latter.
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