"Without nuance" As if the concept of "nuances" was the pinnacle of critical thinking.
The injonction to nuance is a common tool used by liberals and confusionnists. This is the belief that in nuance rely the moral high ground, the superior mindset. This is also what leads those individuals to believe that "there is good on both sides" and therefore put them in a fragile position of equilibrium between two opposite sides.
And what happens when we push this belief to the extrem ? Well, this happens:
A fascist action in the name of progressism.
To anyone reading this: Never let yourself be fooled by people who tell you to have a more "nuanced" approach when you are talking about subjects such as oppression of minorities, racism or sexism.
You don't need to be nuanced on those subject. People are suffering and people are dying because people like them refuse to face the problems of society through a radical lens.
As for this:
How naive do you need to be to consider that you can be seen as a good person when you bring a radical progressive rethoric in a forum field with confusionnist, conservatist and apolitical meritocrates.
Don't insult my intelligence mate.
Being seen as a good person by people I'm fighting politically would be like being proud of being called "a good person" by someone like Donald Trump. I don't want to be liked by people like him.
If the majority of people are starting to like me on this forum... its either because I succeeded in making a change or because I screwed up somewhere.
I don't remember saying that I would never do anything to hurt everyone. I don't believe that I should have any kind of respect for people who holds and spread beliefs that can hurt others.
When I call someone a bigot, I describe their belief system as what it is. Facing the fact that we hold problematic belief CAN be hurtfull, yes. I don't deny that.
But again, I'm not a saint. With those people..
I will not insult,
I will not harrass,
I will not threaten,
I will not physically hurt,
But I won't be nice and respectfull.
Indeed.
And I'm not claiming that I'm better than anyone. Again, I'm just a leftist and I'm not a saint.
----- Let's be serious and lets calm down the trolling for a moment: ------
If there is one thing you must understand about me. Is that no matter the numbers of labels I will put on people or on you, I'm a result of my experience. My belief in the power of human change will therefore always surpasses everything!
Which means that when I call someone a Bigot or even a fascist, I hold absolutely NO hate toward the person.
I might be angry against them, I might be dissapointed by them, I might be hating their belief system and I might do everything in my power to stop them, but I will never hate them. Hate is not an emotion that can solve problems, empathy on the other hand does. And its because I know that things can get better and because I worked on my empathy (and that is still a work in progress) that I'm still here labelling you and other people.
I'm not doing that out of hate, I'm doing that to make you realize your point of view. Because I know that people can change if they face their reality.
Now, I'm not saying that labels are the best way to proceed. I would love to have other tools, but sadly, I've come to understand that explaining things, sharing knowledge, science or my own journey and debating doesn't help really either.
So yes, I use and I will continue to use labels. First because new people needs to understand that bigotry is fought on this forum and has a contradiction, but also because I expect those labels to have an effect and make people face their realities just like I faced mine.
