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Sorry :)
I know from experience that the only way anyone who holds such strong beliefs will change their mind is when they are placed in a situation that seriously challenges it. So most of the time it is up to the individual to choose to challenge their beliefs, not me. I'm just a speaker you can ignore.
Good luck. I hope if you do that you end up at some conclusion that helps you. And yes, I know you will claim that this means I have nothing to show you. I guess you'll have to decide if that means you're unwilling to try.
I'm not ignoring you - I'm giving you (and the rest of the liberals in here) the perfect opportunity to extoll the virtues of liberal "see no white supremacism, hear no white supremacism, speak no white supremacism" ideology.
Unsurprisingly, there are no takers. I am left to draw the obvious conclusion - that liberals are no less invested in the maintenance of racialized society than their fascist cousins are. It's just the way this investment is expressed that differs.
Hahaha, yeah, you're right, we ain't biting. :)
You could, and this is just a thought, also choose to look up the many arguments and discussions on this exact topic online, since you're so keen to explore it. Bootstraps, my friend. Gotta put in the work!
Hold on a sec while I follow your advice...
Hold it...
Hold some more...
Just one more sec... done!
You mean like this?
You know what you're doing. Taking a single radical source and using it to try and get people to pivot and engage. However, I now know you have the capacity to do a Google search. So good luck on your journey of information discovery and in challenging your beliefs. If you are fair in what you read and open-minded in what you learn, much of the time you will gain wisdom. Heck, you may even look back with some consternation at conversations and beliefs you once held. It's in those moments of self-reflection and embarrassment where many of us realize how much we've grown as people.
That said, I will say this:
Inequality exists not due to Man, though rather due to nature itself. Therefore, as Man, we must then seek to challenge nature so that we may thrive in unity. If you personally were to take the dichotomy of our modern political and sociocultural systems and challenge them to prove their efforts in supporting a more inclusive and just world, which side would you choose?
The Red or the Blue?
One or the other. Because we both know they are not the same thing, not really, despite the words spoken by a man more than 60 years ago.
You didn't answer my question. :)
There's the problem. You are unwilling to compromise. Change on this scale will require either a small miracle to do overnight, or I'd guess at least a solid 10 years of hard, consistent work by people much more intelligent and decisive than myself, and that's just to set the foundation and create the outline. The first is an act of God and I don't know about you, I'd rather keep religion out of this. That leaves the second, which means compromise to achieve a greater good over a longer period of time.
You see, I don't really care about your beliefs, or anyone else's, so far as they are yours to believe in. Thus action must take the place of opinion. I asked you to commit to something and the only action you were able to take was to tell all of us that you can't stand it. That choosing between what is statistically and factually a greater evil and one that is statistically and factually attempting to be a far lesser evil, is not something you can do.
I'll tell you what I believe in, and it's pretty simple: I believe in what I feel will do good by the world and by its people. Not complete good untarnished by greed or malice, just a good that tries to do right. It doesn't matter the source of the idea; all that matters is whether it is enacted in a way that helps more than it harms. Right, left, middle, none of this means anything. Though at the moment far more malice and hatred is coming from the Red than from anywhere else.
Malcom X and MLK fought for a more equal country, at the end of the day. If their words ring true in your ears at all, it should be obvious where your support must, by necessity, move towards. Else the only way out may be more Malcoms and more Martins.
Up to you. I said what I wanted to say. Whether you listen or not is, as always, your choice.