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cliffyk:
Radicals and zealots of all flavours become inevitably thin shells filled with nothing but vitriolic hate. This hate is all-consuming, and displaces all rational thought and action with immediate mindless and vengeful lashing out at all perceived slights and villains.

Should real villains be in short supply they will be created, of whole cloth if necessary. If any of the fabricated boogie-men are found to strike a chord they will be retained, "fertilised" from time to time with heaps of B.S.; and then summoned up as remindful demons as needed to nurture the group's hate.

I.e. they become that which they despised in the first.

Here and now, the "liberals" are the fascists, though too consumed by their self-righteousness to realise it...

bd139:
Indeed. Cerebus said it nicely above. Give any extremist (either variety) a uniform and legitimacy and you’ve got a problem. Usually the same problem

coppice:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 12, 2020, 07:00:09 pm ---You know I was joking, but surely you've encountered male servants - bell boys, concierge, porter, waiter...

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Those are employees of businesses, who happen to be employed in a service role. Real servants are domestic servants.

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 12, 2020, 07:00:09 pm ---You don't have to have posh friends with butlers to have encountered male servants.

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None that I can remember. All the people I've known with servants had female ones, and I've met hundreds of those.

madires:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 13, 2020, 12:19:44 am ---No, all forms of ideology that categorize people by labels are cancerous. Once you've labelled a person "liberal", "fascist", "jew", whatever, you're one step closer to treating them as a thing, an object that must be removed as an obstacle to the success of your ideology. Just add a natty uniform and a bit of marching and you're there.

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Unfortunately we won't be able to change that because it's human nature to simplify things, e.g. by sorting people and things into drawers.

Doctorandus_P:
Next thing on the list are gender neutral connectors.   :-DD

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