• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    If course they don’t see themselves as hateful. But they have no qualms about using cruelty to enforce their idea of the proper social order. If you want to be very literal, the cruelty is the means to an end and not an end in itself, but when they use cruelty as a first resort to enforce rules to designed to keep undesirable people in their place, I see it as a distinction without a difference.

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      1 year ago

      But they have no qualms about using cruelty to enforce their idea

      So, you agree that cruelty isn’t the point?

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          1 year ago

          You seem to be saying the opposite:

          The cruelty isn’t the only point behind every conservative position, but it’s the only point of enough of them