farmerboy
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you call them cunts behind a keyboard, she tells them to fuck off to their faces. you're a hypocrite and a coward.
Sorry it's taken a while, but I wanted to give this one a considered response that I haven't had time to yet.
Straight up, you're right on the hypocritical part but I'm no coward - that's why I'm responding.
"cunts" is such lazy language and hypocritical on my part. I think Info Wars is all kind of wrong, but just calling them cunts is as bad as the girl calling him a "fucking idiot". It's just lazy, and I fell into the trap too. They are misogynistic, racist, disingenuous and straight out lying "truthers". I'd happily call them that to their faces and explain why. And it'd be very, VERY hard doing it without resorting to a big fat "fuck you".
You see, I'm not above what that girl did, but from my distance, and without the emotion of the day, I look at that small exchange and realise/think it is not how you go forward.
If you think it's a good starting point, then fair enough. But our thinking has got to be bigger than that. You feed off your hatred off Info Wars and their fans feed off their hatred of this video. It never ends.
For the record, I don't think this girl is hard left, but I do think the hard left will feed off this. I don't think the girl done anything amazing or heroic. I don't think venerating her behaviour is especially a sign of strength. I don't think the hard right are people you should even engage, you won't change them.
But I do think we can do better. However, as another poster pointed out, maybe I'm just overthinking this and projecting.