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peri | 3 years ago

This video is not for converting the racists, it's for talking to people who don't want the racists to win. Period. I think Jean-Paul Sartre was right when it comes to Réflexions Sur la Question Juive / The Anti-Semite and Jews: “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.”

There is no convincing them. They argue in bad faith. White Replacement Theory is at its core both anti-semitic, anti-black, anti-"outsider/other". It is not responsive to data, it is responsive to being rejected by those of us who are listening hard enough that those motivated by anti-semitic, racist nonsense eventually hear it. Genuine human connection, not just charts.

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