The Unit of Caring

Anonymous asked: Or, or: punching people who want to exterminate the oppressed, shutting them up, stomping the fascist insect in its root is extremely effective, and the only problems with this are because liberal fascists like you jump to the defence of Nazis rather than listen to the voices of the oppressed. How about this obvious fact?

I just gave some examples of this tactic failing spectacularly and giving the opinions which were ‘attacked’ far more attention than they’d ever have earned on their own merits. 

Or are you arguing that, yes, the tactic fails spectacularly, but the reason it fails spectacularly is because of all of the people who responded to the Middlebury fiasco by buying The Bell Curve, and if instead they all ‘listened to the voices of the oppressed’, then the tactic would be a success, so the thing to do is to keep right on doing it but also yell at them for making it fail?

Because, uh, plans that only work if everyone overwhelmingly agreed with you and acted the way you want them to act are otherwise known as plans that don’t work at all. If the ‘only problems with’ your approach are that it won’t work unless everyone in the world reacts the way you’d personally like them to react, then your approach is terrible and you need to throw it out and start completely from scratch.

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