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    3 days ago

    The title is in reference to the fact that they use something they are uneducated consciously miseducated about as their tool for hatred.

    FTFY. Bigotry requires education - an education presided over by reactionary actors intent on protecting the status quo.

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        2 days ago

        Not spending vast amounts of treasure and energy to create them in the first place seems like a logical first step to me.

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              1 day ago

              No no, I think communism would be far better than capitalism, and I don’t think I have anything to fear from a system that makes us equal and caters to our basic needs, but I have no idea how it would turn people kind and thoughtful instead of bigoted. You seem to think it will fix every wrong in the world. Do please explain why or how it changes the people rather than their circumstances.

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                21 hours ago

                So, let me get this straight… you are claiming to not understand how not spoonfeeding people reactionary propaganda from birth might have a dramatic effect on said people’s bigotry?

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                  16 hours ago

                  The absence of the hate programming would be great, but it’s not just the government that communicates and I didn’t know that mass censorship of hate-fuelled points of view was part of the plan.

                  Maybe I’d be on board with that kind of thing, but I worry slightly that just as when you lock up “criminal illegal immigrants” en masse you invariably end up locking up people who are none of these three things, if you lock up people who spread “illegal criminal counter-revolutionary talk” you end up locking up vast numbers of people who don’t support the party with quite the correct degree of enthusiasm or who are just having a bad day or year.

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                    15 hours ago

                    but it’s not just the government that communicates

                    Yes, and?

                    Reactionary propaganda is a tool of class warfare - and it would be a pretty inefficient one if it was only the state performing it.

                    I didn’t know that mass censorship of hate-fuelled points of view was part of the plan.

                    Do you think we should also censor chickens to stop them from producing square eggs, perhaps?