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It's a nice ideal, but once the views become too extreme, it's not practical. Not many people will maintain basic civility towards a person telling them they don't deserve basic rights for example.
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"engaged with people and the culture" is a bit revisionist considering the number of conflicts with politicians and law enforcement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Inn for example? (Example chosen at random, there's tons of them)
We’re going to fight fascism, and if you don’t agree with us we’ll burn your house down. America in a nutshell.
I find it entirely bizarre that so large scope of population and media is fine with what is going on...
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Not destruction of the middle ground, but rather hiding of the middle ground. Moderates do not feel safe to express moderate views for fear of being ostracized and cancelled.
It must be kind of difficult to have representation for moderate views when they only have two political parties.
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All major political leaders were against gay marriage at some point. The Clintons, Obama, Biden, etc. As for GWB .... > George W. Bush's Forgotten Gay-Rights History > He defied his party by endorsing civil unions in 2004. (But that same year, he backed a constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriage. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/george-...
Was Trump?
And this is why it's so important to maintain basic civility to everyone, regardless of political views.
we're posting Cato Institute links now?
I don't care one way or another about banning, but yeah, people really should not put any weight into what comes out of it today.
And this is why it's so important to maintain basic civility to everyone, regardless of political views.
It's a nice ideal, but once the views become too extreme, it's not practical. Not many people will maintain basic civility towards a person telling them they don't deserve basic rights for example.
The way you've phrased it means that it's perfectly reasonable to be uncivil (violent) towards others. That's a breakdown of communication and has effectively "othered" the individuals/groups based on their disagreement with your framing of the topic.
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That there are reasons other than racism that partially explain the achievement gap between races.
Such as...?