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In reply to the discussion: America's Dangerous Turn to Anti-Intellectualism [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)46. The problem with what you said
Is that right-wingers don't use violence constructively, such as for a revolution (and even that is debatably constructive). Instead, they take it out on blacks, women, gays, and minorities of all stripes. They are full of hatred for those different from them. They may be unhappy, but they have been told to blame the wrong people, and they do so willingly.
They will not use violence to strike a blow for freedom, as you suggest. It will not "seem against freedom"; it will be against freedom. It is a direct attack on the people who are already under fire. Violence cannot be encouraged. If we are to have a true revolution (peaceful, violent, or otherwise) it must be for the correct reason,or it will fail.
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If the idiots are willing to do anything it is better than talking the situation to death
Sweeney
Dec 2014
#7
I think book and music bannings and burnings are a phenomenon that breaks out in different places
Dustlawyer
Dec 2014
#18
"Reality has a known left wing bias", and facts clash with the repuke world view. Simple.
on point
Dec 2014
#12
*repeatedly* (OTOH they had Antikythera-level machines in Byzantium around 500)
MisterP
Dec 2014
#33
So "A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn" wouldn't be allowed either.
L0oniX
Dec 2014
#26
Yep. His book "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" was required reading
The Velveteen Ocelot
Dec 2014
#44
Scientism? Like what? As a computer engineering major I wonder what you're talking about.
alp227
Dec 2014
#54
TPTB desire a new generation of automatons, pliable cows easily herded against their own self
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2014
#47