Quote:
Originally Posted by Duruss
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
This whole Kirk situation brings this quote to mind plus, conservatives never think an something is a problem until it personally effects them, hence the first school shooting many of these people have ever cared about.
|
In retrospect Sartre was only partly right, a lot of these fascists are too stupid to see the ridiculousness of their words.