Ben Royce 🇺🇦
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Granted, it's possible to be too aggressive here.
That casual misogynist might just need a little talking to. While a hardcore reaction might backfire.
And WWIII right up front over a minor land disagreement... yeah, no.
So again, Karl Popper:
"I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise."
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩@benroyce@mastodon.social
So there is some finesse here. The difficult task in containing latent fascism is knowing how to react to it. Too harsh and you feed it. Too soft and it grows.
But this is absolutely true and everyone must know it:
You aren't going to have to eventually confront fascism.
It is simply the truth that it is always there to be confronted.
All of us. All societies. For all time.
It's always bubbling under the surface. And it must be confronted.
Early, or it grows.
And claims innocence.
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