Why does the "compromise" of the moderates always have to be enforced from above by a centralised, bureaucratic state? If political outcomes were the genuine result of a process of consensus-building, there should be virtually no coercive apparatus required.
I think that moderates have a process of confusing process with outcome, when it comes to "compromise". They imagine compromise in terms of a lack of dissent, rather than in terms of universal participation, and that a quiet and harmonious public sphere is both the goal and the proof of a functioning system of consensus. It's not a big jump from there to interpreting any expression of dissent as a rejection of compromise and therefore of the entire democratic process, that is to say, as extremism. It's the cargo cult version of a democratic republic, and tends to install in otherwise reasonable and sober people from some unsettlingly totalitarian attitudes towards political dissent.
Sure.
"Black people always act like they're the victims, but then they behave like thugs, robbing stores, getting in trouble with the cops, and then when they're shot because of it, they all rally together and go like "Black Lives Matter!" Hell hath no hypocrisy like Black Thugs who are convinced they're victims."
Really easy to see how your statements that generalize ideological groups as if they're all the same matches how racists generalize races as if they're all the same. Of course doing it with ideological groups isn't as bad because you choose to affiliate with them, but it's still very interesting to see how well your way of thinking matches that of racists.
Yes, but that statement is offensive not because the structure of the sentence is intrinsically malevolent, but because, when applied to black people, it is untrue and slanderous.
I could also say that black people have eight legs, an exoskeleton, and a triple-segmented body; that this statement is absurd and reasonable when used to describe black people does not mean that it is absurd and unreasonable when used to describe spiders. Truth is not simply a question of the
structure of the statement, but of the
accuracy of the statement.
edit: wait dang it spiders only have two segments.