• AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    So your whole argument boils down to using infantilization against your opponent to avoid scrutiny of your bad faith.

    You very cynically, in the service of advocating for the genocide you low key support, equated having principles against genocide as ‘seeking perfection.’

    No one with either a brain or a heart could possibly take such a premise on face value without assessing you to be a crypto nazi. So every effort you took in this argument past that has been to mug to the audience you’re too stupid to understand isn’t on your side either.

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      5 days ago

      Pulling out the Sartre Ol’ Reliable on a different kind of genocide defender

      Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.