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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2021-08-19 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] anna_wing 2021-08-20 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
Declaring that those who disagree withyou on a topic are as a matter of principle beyond the pale is only viable as a policy if you have the power to make that position stick permanently; otherwise you remain permanently vulnerable to the shifting currents of societal fashion and substantive power.

I also do not accept or agree with the proposition that disagreement=violence. The whole point of politics is to manage disagreement without violence. No-one is in the majority on every issue.

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[personal profile] andrewducker 2021-08-20 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
If you are arguing for the unpersoning of people then you are defacto arguing for violence against them.

[personal profile] anna_wing 2021-08-20 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
What is the unpersoning of people? Being made stateless is the major thing that I can think of, or the arguments about the status of UK and EU citizens under the Brexit legal changes would be another, I suppose.

I notice that the article cavities didn't say anything at all about fluoridation of water, which is a major contributor to dental health.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2021-08-20 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
Racism, homophobia, and transphobia and are all arguing that people are less than a "real" person.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2021-08-20 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Fluoride in the water is awesome, but doesn't explain differences between two people in the same household (unless one never drinks water).
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