RE: New Age woo, pantheism, "connected"
March 13, 2015 at 8:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2015 at 8:06 pm by Dystopia.)
(March 13, 2015 at 5:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote:This is not related exclusively with fascism. Western politicians do that all the time and we live in a democracy. You don't know the meaning of the word fascism, and you are conflicting fascism with national-socialism, two ideologies that are not mutually exclusive(March 13, 2015 at 4:33 pm)Dystopia Wrote: What does this have to do with fascism?
Everything.
If I claim pink unicorns exist manage to convince tons of people they do, then win local elections, then a national election, then demand that no one offend that claim, my fans will act on my word.
Like when Hilter convinced Germans that they were the master race and that Jews were the problem.
Any claim that spreads without a counter can lead to very bad things. You can only reduce the harm, and yes you still have to allow the claim to be made. But leaving the claim to it's own devices is poison.
Just stumbled across this, this is why you challenge claims.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/13/living/cre...index.html
A claim can only cause harm if it's based on hate and prejudice. An idiotic claim based on zero evidence that doesn't hate anyone isn't harmful, just stupid.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you