
Originally Posted by
Raven2014
The most dangerous thing about people like you is you don't realize there is a very (dangerous) difference that extremist fail to recognize the damage they do to their platform.
- If people want to silence you, that's actually the easy fight. That's what people have been doing since the 60'
- The much harder fight is when people no longer care about what you said. This trend started around a decade ago and getting worse.
Just think what's the most dangerous threat to democracy isn't far left or far right, it's about a population that has grown apathetic to the process. And before you go and blame the population for being apathetic, think why they become apathetic in the first place.
It's used to be a moderated things with a lot of genuine support, that's why social movement have been able to gain a lot of advancement. But the last decade or so some movement have movement felt empowered enough to believe themselves can't do no wrong, allow them to insert in any situation and gaslit everyone ... at best, I think a lot of people just become jaded when we have to be exposed to a constant 24/7 issue. Remember, even when there is a war with hundred people dying daily, being in the news long enough and most just look at all those deaths as trivial evening news.
People are not telling the activist to shut up because they want to silence others, but no one want to listen to the same crap repeat ad-nauseam.
Remember even when a medicine is good, an overdose will sometime create the opposite effect. That's exactly the (dangerous) difference people like you can't recognize.
That's even assuming you're being genuine, but I seriously doubt that.
I'm old enough to remember that one of the pillar of social activism used to be no person should be denied a job based on who they are, but only on their own merit.
To think these days you see some minority is brazen enough to believe they should get the job simply because of who they are despite lacking the ability to do it.
Yeah, get that crap outta here. Just because originally people have a good cause, doesn't mean they're immune to take it too far. If anything, the history human is a gigantic show case of that very risk.