Centerists - eviltoast
  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Who said there was? Dont try to strawman this. You are missing the point. And your condescension is unwarranted.

    No, there is no sound argument for racism, and when you hear an argument for it, you identify its nonsense and move on. But that doesn’t mean there are no sound arguments for other things you disagree with.

    Frankly, anyone can point at something that is morally wrong and say it’s wrong. That doesn’t make YOU right. Thats just essentially virtue signalling.

    I disagree with fascists and racists too. But im sure there is something else out there we disagree on, such as whether or not you should block people who disagree with you.

    My point is that you can’t arrive at what is right without knowing what is wrong and you can’t know what is wrong if you block everyone who disagrees with you.

    You also cant rule out a person having a good take just because they also have some bad takes.

    • niartenyaw@midwest.social
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      51 minutes ago

      I think some of the confusion here might be that this comic is specifically referencing booting out bigots and their apologists.

      if someone is willing to argue in bad faith (in this case, specifically bigots), there is no reason to listen to that or anything else they have to say since they’ve shown they are willing to argue in bad faith at all. I also think anyone who is an apologist of them is also not worth listening to because they are in bad faith by proxy.

      that being said, it’s perfectly okay to have people arguing in good faith while coming to different conclusions. there can be disagreement and that is healthy as you’ve said.