Zombie Glenn Beck » Mon Jul 07, 2014 2:05 pm wrote:American Dream » Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:35 pm wrote:Wow- I have to rethink everything now- Here I thought we had a small crew crew of clowns generating resistance towards what should be ABC type stuff because some of them held "neither right nor left" beliefs that were actually a cover for a sympathy towards what most anyone would call extreme right wing beliefs, but they didn't want to admit it. Now, I see we actually have: great ecologists, psychoanalysts, intellectually giant philosophers, anti-racist social justice advocates and other such highly evolved individuals in our midst.
How could I have ever thought that jakell or any of those allied with him or bluenoseclaret might secretly harbor reactionary beliefs?
More importantly, why do you care if they harbor secret reactionary beliefs?
Do you believe racism has really become less prevalent on a personal, societal and institutional level in the past 60 years or so? I don't. I believe it has simply become less acceptable to practice and promote it openly. Does this mean it is less harmful? I don't think so. In some respects it is perhaps more harmful.
By the very nature of being secret their beliefs dont show up on this board, and therefore dont effect the board.
If it were
that secret. Maybe. But it isn't, so moot point.
Unless you are saying that their presented beliefs are somehow influenced by those secret beliefs.
Can't speak for AD, but doesn't that stand to reason?
But whats the difference between having beliefs that are secretly influenced by reactionary leanings, and honestly holding the beliefs that you state?
Little to nothing. That's why it matters.
Shouldnt the things that these people say be judged on their own merit and not based on any stuper-sekkret evilbadwrong thoughts which might have lead to them?
Yes and no. Yes on the merits. No, examining the origins of people's beliefs is important. I don't want to just judge the words of David Duke. I want to also know what he is afraid to say, what he refrains from saying for political purposes, what he says in private, what he says in code for those who get the message, wink, wink. I want to know about his formative years, his influences, the books he read, his family life, his demographic origins. All of these areas are of interest.
When a child walks up to me looking guilty and holding something behind their back and I ask them to show me and they won't, I become suspicious.
By the way, the idea that people you disagree with arent just nazis, but SECRET Nazis is a completely sane and rational way of thinking.
I have yet to see AD label anyone with whom they merely disagree a nazi. Context is everything.
BTW, stands to reason that there are many people who hide their most reactionary tendencies. Right? Of course. If only the world could be rid of the PC nazis that force the real nazis to hide beneath white hoods.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.