02-02-2017, 08:21 AM
(02-02-2017, 05:47 AM)Galen Wrote:(02-02-2017, 05:26 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(02-02-2017, 03:57 AM)Galen Wrote:(02-02-2017, 03:44 AM)taramarie Wrote: You know me, I treat everyone as an individual not defined by preconceived notions of what they are all like by my experience with some blue or red voters and the like. Sorry but people are not clones of each other and I prefer to keep it that way so my mind is kept open on that topic and not clouded by judgement. I have my reasons why and one of them is so open communication for each person is able to be done. I will not participate in smears of vast groups of people.
Know thy enemy. I would prefer to be wrong but I am a realist and you know your enemy by what they do, say and write. The left has and is making their intentions known: No dissent allowed.
Milo Yiannopoulis (correct the spelling) went to Berkeley to provoke a response like the one that he got.
He may be a provocateur but he did not choose their response.
This points out what has been said before, the left feels morally justified in its violent response. If this had come from Republicans, Libertarians or the alt right you would be demanding that they repudiate the people involved. Interesting that is not happening. Indeed you feel he was asking for it. He was expressing ideas which you disagree. Thank you for helping to make my point about the left.
If it makes you feel any better -- the people who attacked Milo Yiannopoulos were members of an anarchist group similar to the one that trashed Washington DC in the J20 riots. The black flag with the A in the circle? Those are anarchists who want to destroy all authority. Contrast where I stand: law and order is the first civil right, without which Humanity defaults to the Law of the Jungle.
But let's remember: he chose to provoke some response, and normal liberals had no cause to confront him. Convincing someone of the rightness of something other than pure plutocracy is as futile as trying to make a vegetarian out of a cat. Those who protested him destroyed public and private property, which is not a valid form of protest.
Milo Yiannopoulos is the political equivalent of someone who stirs up trouble in a bar in the mistaken belief that calling some bar patron an offensive name is an exercise in free speech.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
