But the discussion is largely confined to hysterical wailing about how the droogs have taken over and this is a nightmare but don't worry we can put them back in their boxes, everything is going to go back to normal soon, etc, etc.
Silly people do silly things. Always have always will. I suppose I'm more concerned with evil cunts doing evil things myself.
Evil cunts aren't going to disappear if only enough people call them evil cunts. We need an opposition, and right now there isn't one. America is even more of a headcase at the moment. It's a fucking disaster.
At some point, the "fascists" (i.e., right-wing populists of various types) will be in power all over the place. (They're already pretty successful.) Then refusing to debate with them is going to be completely redundant. Ultimately, all it will achieve is preventing people from understanding the electorate.
At some point, the "fascists" (i.e., right-wing populists of various types) will be in power all over the place. (They're already pretty successful.) Then refusing to debate with them is going to be completely redundant. Ultimately, all it will achieve is preventing people from understanding the electorate.
Yes, you keep repeating that. Name the taboos. What do you think needs to be debated that isn't being debated? What are the things you feel unable to say?
To give an example when I see someone respond to some unarmed black geezer getting shot dead by police by saying well if they didn't commit crimes they wouldn't come into contact with the police would they? My first thought isn't to blame the tactics of BLM or to examine the actions of individual members of BLM. Not that those things can't be discussed or criticised, it's just not the first thing I'd think about
My assumption is that there are deep seated historical, emotional, psychological and possibly even genetic factors behind the appeal of tribalism, authoritarianism, sadism etc and that the left has to go against the grain to some extent. I think it's maybe a harder sell.
It's my bedtime. I haven't done very well here tonight but tomorrow is a new day. Night night all.
You're probably right there, but it seems to be having a noticeably harder time of it at present than at some periods in the relatively recent past. Some of this can no doubt be explained by things like the automation or offshoring of heavy industry, the collapse of well-paid blue-collar jobs and the concomitant decline in the power of trade unions, which are either a nefarious capitalist plot to destroy the working class or an unavoidable fact of life, depending on your POV. But this has been compounded by many on the left, particularly in academia, having come to accept neoliberalism and globalization as inevitable and concentrating on identity politics instead, leaving a gap that Trump and the Brexiteers, charlatans as they may be, have filled simply by pretending to give a shit.