I must say I’m dismayed at the number of people who still think hosting extremists for a conversation is fine as long as you ask “tough questions” and “push back forcefully.”
This idea betrays such a profound misunderstanding of the political conflict and of how these people operate.
This idea betrays such a profound misunderstanding of the political conflict and of how these people operate.
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Thomas Zimmer
In the midst of an all-out authoritarian assault on the constitutional order and democratic self-government, when the nominal opposition party should be sending a clear signal to the public that this is an emergency, the Democratic Governor of California goes: “Welcome, Steve Bannon!”
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One do not debate or discuss with the far-right
Period.
Those clips will 💯be clipped, taken out of context, used in their propaganda to further erode our democracy
Stop listening to Obama-era strategists
Perhaps it will sink in, eventually.
That's what an optimist would say.
There's nothing to say to fascists and the genocidal.
They understand only one thing, and it's not words.
Kirk/Bannon is definitely a choice. I guess Cadence Owens is next.
We said they are Neo-Nazis, talking to them only legitimizes their views, and gives them a platform to spread them.
People countered with "we need listen to understand, and discuss, their views".
And here we are in the same situation again...