Make the point that individuals are the ones who are racist, not the demographic. People aren’t racist/sexist because they’re white/male, so making a claim against white/male people is ineffective. However, individuals who identify as Nazis, are racist, because the group itself is racist.

It leaves less room for “oh they’re just racist misandrists targeting us” by reframing what you’re saying. The critique isn’t the problem but the manner in dispensing it which gives the opposition fuel to “uno reverse” the situation.

She insinuated she hears a lot of white men and made no attempt to specify what kinds of white men, only that she hears them often. Generalizing isn’t bad in itself, but targeting characteristics that can’t be changed for the sake of a counterpoint, is. Someone can’t choose to be a man or white, so rather than allow the opposition to make it about either, reframe it into what it is. Racism, sexism, etc.

It seems pedantic but you don’t want to appear to be the enemy they paint you as. You don’t want to use the language they’ll benefit from, no matter how right you are.

The very beginning. “If white men are so afraid” is the antithesis of her latter point which is “white men aren’t afraid” and insinuates they don’t stop talking or are generally just more abundant. Even if it’s not directly insulting, it’s a generalization based on race (and sex) that pushes away people who happen to be white and male but also feel their voice doesn’t matter.

I’m just trying to be helpful in pointing out that it’s ineffective to become the monster you’re fighting. I’d like racism, sexism, all of it to be extinguished and I think things even like the community rule of “only women can post” is severely detrimental to meaningful change. We must choose our responses more carefully so as not to grant the assumption that black and white are opposites no more than men and women are opposites.

There’s far too much division online that doesn’t exist nearly as much when we step away. We need to be reminded of that more often.

I never meant to imply a pacifist would be required to engage in violence, only that they would have to indirectly support it at the very least, lest their own principles be engulfed by those who would see to their extinction.

When a man makes fun of a woman for something seemingly inherent to a woman, the response isn’t to attack all men. That’s being sexist to defeat sexism.

When a white person makes fun of a black person for something seemingly inherent to black people, the response shouldn’t be to attack all white people. That’s being racist to defeat racism.

It is a flawed response as it will always be as equally incorrect as the initial remark. It doesn’t fix the thing you take issue with, it just further deepens the line between groups.

When you just throw shit at the wall, you’ll hit something eventually

I wish the solution to racism wasn’t just racism towards the people doing it. The only way to stop racism is to stop being racist.

Remember everyone, you can just mullvad into a different country while yours passes increasingly facistic laws. Japan is gonna see a lot of traffic.

Nah court jesters were entertaining and a king would regularly execute ones that overstepped their privilege. Trump isn’t laughing.

They’re ragebaiters and they have a hell of a megaphone.

In theory, of course. Love that.

However, there are people who exist that should be kept out. Known terrorists and criminals should be denied entry, there are severe punishments that if we can’t enact we at the very least should prohibit their return. A modern day exile. You can only confirm who a bad person is by confirming who they aren’t. You need an ID to let Joshua Hamton, candy store owner, into the country but to also keep out Jeffery Epstein, kid diddler, from returning should he escape. A filter must exist but not one this strict. The only way to remove the filter would be to assimilate under a global legal system which we are centuries from obtaining.

It’s a tough go for the people who believe in pacifism or nonviolent change.

Thank you, what would the elevator be in this analogy? Can’t think of any elegant, smooth, safe way out of this political cluster fuck.

The Washington establishment is called that precisely because it has been legitimized and established. If you want to delegitimize it, that could serve as the first step to achieve a solution. I’m not saying our views are even contrasting, our methodology is.

Spreading the good word doesn’t mean much when there’s nothing that follows. No plan, no suggested actions, just small groups struggling to do what they can. All we can presently do is slow the bleeding. Getting tired of bleeding doesn’t mean to just stop holding the wound.

There is no alternative. Third party is not an option and if you think the DNC hates progressives, you’re not looking at the RNC. Democrats are the only window. The only solution under the current system. Yes, decry the system is broken and we will nod on solem agreement. Short of a revolution, the Democrat party is the best current solution.

Anyone who isn’t a nazi should be voting blue. Any other option allows a nazi to be elected. This is a trolly problem but with the whole of the United States and to a degree the globe. Stop overcomplicating it.

Mamdani is a progressive democrat, if course the establishment democrats are against him. Yet, he’s about to become mayor. Yes we all know the DNC scuttled Bernie which is why I never said to fund the DNC I said vote blue. An establishment dem is better than a republican. A progressive dem is better than an establishment dem.

The only way a progressive gets elected is as a Democrat. Mamdani proves it. We can’t even do ranked choice voting because Republicans would never win again, so they block it.

You’re screaming what we already know. There is no ignorance, you are no town crier, you are simply noise for the sake of it and I’m sick of the unintelligent cacophony.

I didn’t ask if it was your country, I said present a viable solution and steps to achieve the better outcome. You are no different from a baby crying for milk. You don’t care how you get it, don’t care what happens to get it to your mouth, you just want it now and refuse to be silent until it happens. People like you slow progress with your incessant babbling.

You have energy with no direction. Outrage without clear purpose. And you often act like an anchor to things you’d otherwise be able to benefit from. Worst of all you are incapable of distinguishing severity. You are a mind broken centrist (or ultra leftist) that can’t figure out we can get rid of all the kid touchers with the left, while the right is defending them whole sale.

We cannot have a left of left party while the right still exists. We cannot remove the right by allowing them to be elected.

Yeah people like you just don’t have a solution. You’d rather wait for a cure to the cancer than to get treatments done. We all know the treatments aren’t perfect, we know we’re slowly dying, why the fuck do we need you screaming it? You’re yelling in a cancer ward that the treatments aren’t cures. No shit.

Yeah you’re right there’s no difference between jumping off a building and using stairs. The long term solution is to get to the bottom, does it matter how?

Lol I swear to god some of you are just accelerationists. You have four options when voting rolls around. Vote red, vote blue, vote green, do nothing.

Voting red accelerates the damage, policies that don’t align with your core personal beliefs are implemented and things get worse, fast. Laws that granted more freedom, repealed. Laws that stifle retaliation, rubber stamped. Regression in its purest form.

Voting blue slows things down, opens the gate for progressives to enter the space, even going as far as to win despite aid from the DNC. Mamdani for example. Can lead to fundamental system changes.

Voting green (or “morality voting”) usually ends in a lack of funding for the candidate, causing too few people to know who they are. Normies will not vote for a name they don’t recognize or a party they don’t identify as.

Not voting (or “Protesting the system”) leads to candidates that don’t represent the interests of the country being elected and makes it easier for those with money to make it harder to actually change the system.

The reason nothing gets fucking done is because you get it in your head to be cute. You want to purity test the left rather than shutting the fuck up and just voting blue. Republicans cannibalized themselves for like a month over speaker of the house, then got their shit together and just pass anything red. In 6 months they have caused more political damage to this country than any left candidate has ever hoped to try. And stupid purists like you are a massive reason why he got elected. Twice.

Yeah so maybe we go after the worst ones before burning both bridges and getting nothing done. You’re acting like a centrist voting third party out of morality. Guess who won? The worst guys. Maybe fucking focus on a winning strategy to take out Hitler before we move on to mini Hitler.

You might be chronically online buddy

You guys are assuming there isn’t one on the dumpster with no evidence of that. You’re creating your own realities based on bias.