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I am so done with the moral indignation and moral prescriptions of people who refuse to recognise the humanity of those they disagree with.
There is no path to justice that leads through dehumanisation. None. https://twitter.com/colwight/status/1347429288870465538
There is no path to justice that leads through dehumanisation. None. https://twitter.com/colwight/status/1347429288870465538
The advocates of this kind of thinking believe their moral righteousness rests of the diagnosis of intolerance and hatred in other people. (That may be true in some instances, with respect to the gender question, it is mistaken, and politically leveraged for anti-democratic
purposes, in order to deny recognition to one side in what is actually a rights conflict...)
What is supremely notable however, is how easily they leverage *exactly* the lexicon of moral disgust, dehumanisation and othering at people who disagree with them, and the extent to
What is supremely notable however, is how easily they leverage *exactly* the lexicon of moral disgust, dehumanisation and othering at people who disagree with them, and the extent to
which this indicates *exactly* what they diagnose as the 'evil' of others.
At this point they are fond of defending their indefensible dehumanisation of others using the paradox of tolerance.
The paradox of tolerance is a thing, one should not tolerate intolerance in others.
At this point they are fond of defending their indefensible dehumanisation of others using the paradox of tolerance.
The paradox of tolerance is a thing, one should not tolerate intolerance in others.
But 'not tolerating' intolerance is *not the same thing* as going full-bore into using the most extreme rhetoric of dehumanisation and othering. In order to express the fact that you think someone's views are unacceptable, you do not have to compare them to viruses and
swarms and infestations, you do not have to engage in the kind of disgusting language used by Chu yesterday, you do not need to make constant memes of them being threatened with weapons, or fantasise about all the different ways you want to harm them.
If you are doing this, you are doing it because you get exactly the same kind of kick out of doing it as the people you so gleefully dehumanise. Because you get a kick out of your righteousness and purity, and out of expelling your aggression and negativity onto other people.
You are not divine justice.
Nobody is.
Anybody who thinks they are is arrogating themselves a righteousness no human possesses, and using it as licence to engage in the kind of base human projection inimical to all justice.
Everybody is human.
That is the point.
Nobody is.
Anybody who thinks they are is arrogating themselves a righteousness no human possesses, and using it as licence to engage in the kind of base human projection inimical to all justice.
Everybody is human.
That is the point.
