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.
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?
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.
I want to know whether you think it’s a good idea to wage structural violence on chickens to prevent them from doing something they have no damn reason to do in the first place.
Just say you prefer bigotry because it protects your privilege and be done with it.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Do you think we should also censor chickens to stop them from producing square eggs, perhaps?
What?!
I don’t think that when you eliminate inequality you necessarily eliminate hate.
A yes or no answer would do.
It was clearly a rhetorical question, and it illuminated nothing. Again with the failure to explain.
Really?
I want to know whether you think it’s a good idea to wage structural violence on chickens to prevent them from doing something they have no damn reason to do in the first place.
Doesn’t seem very rhetorical to me.