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  • BrokebackHampton@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Lemmings who downvote news posts because you disagree with the conclusions, why?
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    10 months ago

    Nope. Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance.

    You’ll have to excuse the lack of elaboration but I’m kinda done of repeating myself when it comes to this topic.

    You should ditch all qualms about losing the moral high ground over nazis. They don’t give a fuck, and neither should you.

    Come on, don’t make me tap the sign post the Sartre quote, you know, the one that goes:

    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. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.

  • BrokebackHampton@kbin.socialtoLinus Tech Tips@lemmy.ml•Madison talks about her experience at LTT (CW: self-harm, sexual assault)
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    11 months ago

    You didn’t dismiss the accusation, yet you demanded more information, which again, we are not owed.

    It’s also incredibly damaging to trust everything someone says without some verification.

    The implication being that’s what I’m arguing? I don’t know you go from “It’s incredibly insensitive to treat sexual assault claims like any other subject and ask victims for details and verification, you should understand how these tactics have historically been used to intimidate and silence women victims of sexual assault and abuse”

    To “Believe any and all claims made by supposed victims like some kind of religious dogma”.

    That’s quite a leap. If you’re not going for a flimsy reductio ad absurdum, you should know (although I feel you already know) no one in this thread is arguing in favor of believing any and all claims of SA like a proof of faith.

    People lie.

    People do lie. The implication that women lie about SA is statistically false and has historically been a key tool of the patriarchy in silencing women.