- Joined
- Jun 18, 2014
What I don't get about Steve Shives and so many other of these authoritarian-Leftists (using it in its none hyberhole form) is why do they have this soft form justifying violence? People like him are rather dangerous because all this Antifa stuff and others going to no platform is achieving is making the right in turn, more violent.
I'm guessing because they think they are on the Right Side of History (TM), anything they do to prevent those they see would delay even a second that Superior Future (TM) is justified. Allowing those that would dare speak against them is tantamount to validating their position and if the other side has to resort to more extreme measures to get their message out, that in turn justifies the attempt to deplatform them retroactively.
It's authoritarianism and George R.R. Martins line “When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say” is particularly noteworthy.
They live in extreme echo chambers and any wrongthink might poison (read: convince members they're not 100% right all the time) and anything that might threaten ideological purity needs to be purged in a fire.