True, but leftists come in all different flavors and it can be fun to engage with some of them. In particular I've come to like engaging with libertar...
yeah it's all fun and games as long as they're not in power. haha, as a rule I don't really engage with actual fascists but I gotta say the discussion...
We don't even have to personally engage fascists, in fact I usually don't because it's unproductive. What antifa wants is to ban any expression of it ...
No, again, the fascists will just be driven underground, like drug use in the war on drugs or alcohol during prohibition. Well thanks for the post-mor...
You're just going to have to go by the specific situation and ask yourself questions like how many right-wingers we're expecting to show up, do the ri...
The "end" of anti-fascism is for there to be no more believers in fascism, but by outright banning fascism you're just driving it underground so that ...
No more fascism, but you're not banning people from thinking it (because no one can) you're only sending the discourse underground. We don't have a ho...
Hold up, Chomsky is supporting actually engaging fascists in discussion? He must be a fascist himself, probably a Nazi. /s Really insightful answer by...
You can be an anti-fascist without advocate for banning all fascist expression. Banning everything just results in fascism going underground and creat...
Do you agree with this too? "The logical conclusion of anti-capitalism is the end of capitalism, meaning no to spout capitalist ideas." You're an anti...
The raison d'etre of the KKK is white supremacy, not the violent oppression of blacks. Violence happens but it's not a daily thing, you're treating it...
You realize the KKK often isn't actually physical violent very often, right? Obviously their belief system is straight up toxic and it would explain t...
But how do we know that larger numbers of ANL would have stopped the violence? This is a minor point though, because in the situation you describe it ...
There are also some antifa communes who probably fall somewhere in the middle between non-violence and violence, so again, we investigate the communit...
I'm fine with neighborhood watches. Communities are allowed to defend themselves, but I think its a poor tactical decision to frame a neighborhood wat...
It comes down to how close these people are with their respective communities. If people are all living and eating and sleeping together, then that co...
Chess for humans isn't really about rationality, it's about your ability to envision future positions and calculate. If chess were just about rational...
I judge groups as they are now. To me this would be like judging the modern American military like the one it was in WWII. If the police or authoritie...
Any crime gets investigated, that's just how it is. Let the police do their work and draw their conclusions. I don't get why this is so complicated. L...
There's a difference between second degree and first degree crimes that's really important here. Did the crime have prior planning or not? If yes, we ...
What exactly do you mean when you say "It's all symbolism. It affects the way people think about themselves and how they assess what's acceptable."? I...
There are plenty of antifa communes where they live and eat together and I'd suspect that at least some coordinate together. There is actually a group...
My sources are mostly interviews, and I know that Mark Bray has interviews with antifa members and he was able to get this access because he's a lefti...
You're so close! Nah man, being Ashkenazi Jewish gives me a direct and deeply personal relationship with Nazism that no other racial/ethnic group, wit...
You know, you might not know this about me because my username is "Carlos" but I'm actually not hispanic. I'm actually an Ashkenazi Jew with family fr...
Where the red line is in terms of when exactly violence is justified? I can't possibly have an absolute answer for that, so I just use the initiation ...
The George Floyd protests were centered around racial justice and the issue of police treatment of minorities. The Boston Tea Party happened because w...
The American revolution was a struggle between a colonizer and her colony. I'll certainly condemn some methods that American patriots used against the...
If you don't want to address one of my points then fine, but that particular point I thought was a pretty strong one. Our discussions will never end i...
There's a difference between violence for national defense or in the case of a civil war versus violence within a society. It's a very different kind ...
:100: Because they commit violence on college campuses and disrupt college speakers such as Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson. Those aren't fascists. Ant...
Meat & potatoes of our discussion is at the bottom. Ok. If by "antifascist actors" you mean actual members of antifa or the ones that dress in black a...
I know that freedom of speech doesn't give the right to whatever platform you want, but you're still allowed to express your ideas verbally and in wri...
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or ...
I was saying that what antifa is doing is contrary to our first amendment. In any case it sets an extremely dangerous precedent as more and more ideas...
Yeah, this was the sense of liberalism that I was using. I wasn't talking about classical liberalism. I don't believe that a liberal social democrat w...
While there may be social democrats in antifa, the ideology of the group is not liberal in the least. A liberal who wants to join the antifa movement ...
Nice post. I'm also a chess player (around 2000/2100 on chess.com) and I agree with you in some respects and disagree in others. I agree that life is ...
I think there might be a slight misunderstanding in terms of what I was saying here. I am not against fighting poverty or homeless and I don't view th...
IMO suffering often does have a purpose and it can teach us important lessons. That's one of the reasons children are so naive; a lot of them haven't ...
The question. Apparently he just doesn't reveal himself. I don't know, maybe he thinks its more fun that way, who knows. This is just the question tha...
Yeah, I wouldn't have expected Schmitt to draw on Italian fascism, but interestingly in his major works - Political Theology and Concept of the Politi...
I haven't read any Italian fascism, but I did read Carl Schmidt years ago so if we're talking German fascism I might have something to contribute but ...
Lets assume you reach some sort of Nirvana state if you manage to sever all forms of attachment - is that something most of us would even want? It wou...
I don't know about beheading specifically but on more than a few occasions he's wished death on political opponents. Also of note is that he flat out ...
Come on Tim, that's a silly question, we both surely know that there would be at least........ five people still left with their heads attached if Str...
Oh yeah - I'm not expecting to. I was just saying since we're on a philosophy forum.... but yeah, in practical reality I'm not spending my time trying...
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