Which one do you think? If you don't want me to think this than stop calling intelligent conservatives like Shapiro a troll.
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Which one do you think? If you don't want me to think this than stop calling intelligent conservatives like Shapiro a troll.
Lexicus
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I didn't call Shapiro a troll?
GenMarshall
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Punching Nazis? I thought we already do that with World War II game titles (and the Wolfenstein franchise) already with them, the Luftwaffe (historically was the most nazi influenced, while the Kregsmarine is the more liberal of the Wermacht and the Heer are a pragmatic mixed bag as a result of compeating with the Waffen-SS), and the Waffen-SS.
Problem with Shapiro is that he goes for insults. I have seen only a few videos of his, but already noted him calling other people's views as "imbecilic", to their face. Which - at the very least- shows he isn't a caring person, but rather a jerk. As to his intelligence, he isn't a cretin, but apparently he very largely overestimates it. Afterall he isn't saying anything deep or profound, he just is better than the ocean of dumb people on media by and large.
And do note that here we are in a web forum, commenting on celebrities. It is not the same to insult others on tv/a show, and you being also one of those celeb bubbles there like Shapiro.
Lastly, his views (anti-Palestinian, pro-Israel state) are so one-sided it becomes bizarre and a parody of a view.
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Berzerker
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I saw a Shapiro clip where he 'refuted' the argument against mass incarceration of blacks by claiming they're in jail in proportion to the crime rate committed by blacks. I dont think thats true wrt selling or using drugs. Another clip showed Shapiro on a 5 minute rant about technological advancements because Neil DeGrasse Tyson lamented our failure to keep up with major achievements like the moon landing. I'll have to check out a few other vids.
^How does that make him non-respectable? The statement is way too general, and as a lone tweet without context it can be seen as also pretty hollow, but i am not seeing an issue of being worthy of respect (as in being seen as a decent person, instead of a jerk and/or cretin?).
Gen.Mannerheim
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Maybe because he's let his fame as a "pop-scientist" go to his head and he now feels like he has to weigh in on every scientific or semi-scientific film that's released today, often being a killjoy in the process or missing the point of the film entirely?
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I mean, that describes most of CFC...
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Nazis definitely deserve to be punched. They want to destroy society as we know it, and replace it with something evil. Along those same lines, we should also be punching communists, anarchists, and unite against fascism.
All of these are very evil, and all of these are a threat to everything we hold dear.
All of these are very evil, and all of these are a threat to everything we hold dear.
MilesGregarius
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Define "anarchist."
caketastydelish
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An anarchist is someone who wants to replace our beautiful society with a lawless land where anything goes.
You are using the word "evil" very liberally.
Note:
- Socrates was perceived as evil by his society and was murdered because of it.
- Americans were perceived as evil by the British during their war of independence.
- Native Americans were occasionally perceived as evil by the European colonists, and were wiped out.
- The starving man you see stealing some bread from a market stall may be seen as evil by the market owner.
I think for humans pretty much anything is evil that which emotionally transgresses against the self and against whatever is associated with the self.
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sophie
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Yeah, but holding genocide as the sine qua non of an ideology makes it pretty fudging evil in an objective sense.
I agree, but we need to clearly define exactly what makes it evil to us. Evil is never objective. You could claim it is universal, if enough people feel like you do.
A question: If the majority of the human population were hungry for war and violence, which humans can be under the right conditions, would genocide still be evil to them?
Another question: Are the people of a village in 5000 BCE evil if they systematically destroy an animal population close to them because the animals are a threat to their survival?
So what exactly makes the Nazi evil? Are they evil because humanity has reached a point where survival is easier for all of us, and we therefore have a greater capacity for empathy for those that cannot defend themselves? Is it because any violent action against any living being should be considered evil?
In other words, what part of self do the Nazi transgress against?
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Exterminating people seems to fall under that.
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