Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting
Nazis Halfway

https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/?fbclid=IwAR2sZv23nsZAOLrmd7sTMWaecx3sWiC1m3qKxEHW8FsnQNdbHsPxYNk-bYM

"Nevertheless, we get this hopelessly naïve version of centrism, of the idea that if we’re nicer to the other side there will be no other side, just one big happy family. This inanity is also applied to the questions of belief and fact and principle, with some muddled cocktail of moral relativism and therapists’ “everyone’s feelings are valid” applied to everything. But the truth is not some compromise halfway between the truth and the lie, the fact and the delusion, the scientists and the propagandists. And the ethical is not halfway between white supremacists and human rights activists, rapists and feminists, synagogue massacrists and Jews, xenophobes and immigrants, delusional transphobes and trans people. Who the hell wants unity with Nazis until and unless they stop being Nazis?"








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