• Rottcodd@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There is a lot of backwards ideas that get accepted as “leftist,” when they’re really statist.

    This is my objection too.

    All too many people here don’t seem to even begin to understand the inherent threats of institutionalized authority, so in their rush to head off the recreation of the Third Reich, they’re basically advocating for the recreation of the Khmer Rouge instead.

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      I’m not sure how I identify philosophically but I wholeheartedly beleive that I should have the iron fisted power to drive all the radical christofascist conservatives and their enablers bloody and screaming back into their hovels or over a very high rocky cliff.

      Other than that I am a pretty nice guy.

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        1 year ago

        And I dream of a world in which, instead of merely wishing to oppress and murder this group of people instead of that one, people don’t wish to oppress and murder anyone.

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        1 year ago

        You can read more into Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance if you want to harden your philosophical position for what you have described.

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          Most people seem to miss the fact that it’s a paradox, even though it’s right there in the name.