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Small town Republican thoughts on refuting the alt-right. In The Republican Journal:
I want to make one thing very clear: The Waldo County Republican Committee absolutely, unequivocally condemns Nazi and KKK ideologies and actions, as well as any other kind of bigotry, and we encourage all of our voters and the community at large to do the same.
For fellow Republicans out there, worry not, we don't like Antifa's ideology and actions either, but we need to clean our own house; we need to worry about our own responsibilities.
Such honesty, and clarity of thought!
The most dangerous part of politics today is identity politics, trolling, pathos and a severe lack of critical thinking. You cannot defeat the insidious hatred of bigoted politics with more hate. By doing so, you morph the conversation away from policy and ideology to silly label syntax, eventually devolving completely into back and forth verbal gymnastics. Make no mistake, these trolls are ready for you as you stoop to their level, and they beat you up with mountains of experience.
So what do we do? Very simple. Stay neighborly by controlling your reaction. Seek out those with whom you disagree, try to understand them first, and politely offer your counter argument.
And it looks like the Republicans in Maine, if not in Illinois, are rejecting the alt-right.
The way to defeat Mr. Kawczynski is not by attacking him, but by attacking his ideas. Here are some flaws in his thinking: His immigration ideas are antithetical to the Maine Republican party platform, a section of which states, "We support the assimilation of legal immigrants into Maine society."
Kawczynski's ideas stand in contrast to Maine history and culture; in fact, it is white folks with racist ideologies who pose the greatest threat to Maine's foundation, not other races of people.
Another brilliant tidbit:
Ultimately, all you have to do is walk outside with your eyes open in this state to see that Kawczynski's fearmongering about "white genocide" is completely laughable.
Entire guest column is well worth a read.
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday February 09 2018, @06:42PM (7 children)
I don't think I have ever seen a word you wrote that wasn't complaining that someone was picking on you, that is until you wrote the TFS, too bad you couldn't keep up that trend. I agree TFS falls short of the bar of being newsworthy.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Friday February 09 2018, @06:53PM (6 children)
Poor, poor aristarchus! First that whole being forgotten about the heliocentric thing, and now everyone picking on him on SoylentNews. I shed tears of infinite sadness, not for myself, but for humanity.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 10 2018, @06:32AM (5 children)
Most of them aren't worth the tears. I've had a harder time of it than NotSanguine and am, well, not as sanguine as he(?) is about people. I just want to be left alone, but it seems the way history is going, all of us with a speck of good left in us are going to be forced to fight.
So be it. People wonder why I'm such a persistent gadfly against the site's resident sociopaths, alt-liters, alt-righters, and actual goddamn Nazis? This is why. It's because it's one of the few ways I can fight, with what few resources I have.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday February 10 2018, @07:16AM (2 children)
c'mon, Hazuki-kun, you know that just wanting to be "left alone" is a libertarian fantasy. The point is, that as a race (humans, does not include "whities", who are a type of underwear, when they are tight) we are in fact dependent upon each other. And this is why a wrong done to one, is a wrong done to all. So, if someone discriminates on skin color, none of our skin colors are safe. Oh, I can here it now, the "Whitenesses" are getting their panties all in a bunch about how they are not allowed to be proud of being "White"! Well suck it, dudes, and yes, they are all dudes. I have submitted many submission that explored the connections between the alt-right and less than manly men that make up the Men's Rights A . . I forget what the "A" stands for, "assholes"? But still it is there. Because there is no such thing as "White". If I am "white" as a Greek, I will never agree with you, the Turk, who, you know, is also white, at least as compared to those hook-nosed semites, the Arabs. Whiteness is not a thing, it is only at thing developed against some other thing, like blackness, or Redness (Hi, TMB!), or Yellow Peril-ism.
NotSanguine has been doing an exemplary job as a Soylentil lately! I cannot praise him too highly! And he, and you Azuma, give me and all rational persons on the planet, hope for the future. Nazis, well, sooner of later, you know, they got to shoot themselves in the mouth, like the the Hitler did. Sooner, or later.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 10 2018, @07:30AM (1 child)
Small quarrel, it'd be Azuma-kun (to a manager or professor), or if you happen to be my girlfriend, Hazuki-chan.
I wish I had your optimism, but more and more, it seems to me the human race is doomed due to its own stupidity, solipsism, and selfishness. When they say those who forget history are condemned to repeat it, what they leave out is that those who DO remember it are condemned to be dragged kicking and screaming along, in the memorable words of a friend, like Hell's mosh pit as it all repeats.
Honestly, I want to just lay down and sleep and never, ever wake up. But that's not realistic. I have my duty. I must fight.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday February 10 2018, @08:18AM
謝罪いたします! But you should know, that fighting from a sense of duty, is always better than fighting out of a sense of fear. And these alt-right types, you can feel their fear.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 10 2018, @11:55PM (1 child)
You will become a right winger, yourself, soon. You are already sociopathic, you show alt-liter tendencies, and you could even be Nazi-fied, given time. Damned authoritarians - you're basically all alike.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 11 2018, @03:33AM
Was this misaimed, or are you actually this delusional?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...