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  • yeeter@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlDefediverse
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    1 year ago

    Maintaining the moral high ground is crucial when attempting to fight extremists with reason and discourse.

    MLK understood this tactic and brilliantly deployed it with his non-violent movement, and he defeated extremists with reason and discourse.

    You can call me naïve, but wouldn’t have been a shame if MLK gave up when he was called naïve?

    When they go low, we go high.

    -Michelle Obama


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    So the solution is to just kick them off all the mainstream platforms and ensure they go to their own echo chambers where they are isolated from any reasonable counters to their ideology, which will just ultimately make the problem worse? Brilliant.

    It’s like the war on drugs. If we just ban it then surely the problem will disappear.

    How can people be this shortsighted?





  • Fire is not fire. Therefore fire is not hot.

    The distinction is between a thing in relation to other things and for us and a thing in itself. To the extent that water cannot wet, it is not water. To the extent that fire cannot burn, it is not fire. Yet precisely for not burning itself, fire is fire; and for not wetting itself, water is water. X is not X, therefore it is X. For precisely in its act of burning firewood, fire does not burn itself; and in not burning itself, it burns firewood. It burns in relation to something else, but in-itself (in relation to itself) it does not burn.