I'm glad whenever this article shows up — it's so much more _pragmatic_ than a lot of things in its genre. What it talks about is actionable, and makes communities better. Forcefully ejecting Nazis, fascists, Gamergaters, and their fellow-travellers from our communities, is both the morally correct thing to do and deeply practical.
Forcefully ejecting Nazis, fascists, Gamergaters, and their fellow-travellers from our communities, is both the morally correct thing to do and deeply practical.
Does not (always) follow. The point is a peace treaty between between who do not otherwise get along. Obviously some of the people you are talking about are provocateurs, but if by "fellow-travellers" you mean people who have principled objections to your own ideology, then you've missed the point.
The issue is that every new generation of this issue comes up with its own version of "the others" to be suppressed.
The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc. that people feel morally justified to destroy at all costs. Moral superiority thanks to the ideology du jour is one of the most insidious and hard to fight social forces that brings the worst out of humans.
The Gulag Archipelago should be mandatory reading for contemporary generations that weren't born in a totalitarian regime and want to get a taste of where blind following of ideology can get them.
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I'm glad whenever this article shows up — it's so much more _pragmatic_ than a lot of things in its genre. What it talks about is actionable, and makes communities better. Forcefully ejecting Nazis, fascists, Gamergaters, and their fellow-travellers from our communities, is both the morally correct thing to do and deeply practical.
Does not (always) follow. The point is a peace treaty between between who do not otherwise get along. Obviously some of the people you are talking about are provocateurs, but if by "fellow-travellers" you mean people who have principled objections to your own ideology, then you've missed the point.
Edit: also, please see https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c
The issue is that every new generation of this issue comes up with its own version of "the others" to be suppressed.
The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc. that people feel morally justified to destroy at all costs. Moral superiority thanks to the ideology du jour is one of the most insidious and hard to fight social forces that brings the worst out of humans.
The Gulag Archipelago should be mandatory reading for contemporary generations that weren't born in a totalitarian regime and want to get a taste of where blind following of ideology can get them.
"The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc"
Surely you can pick the odd one out here.