• geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 days ago

    No you can’t. You cannot say you support racial equality while holding a BLM sign one day and attending a KKK rally the next.

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      3 days ago

      If I give you a dollar and I give Steve a dollar, I’ve supported you both.

      Your example is also wrong. BLM and KKK are organizations. You absolutely can support both organizations by giving them money. It makes you a hypocrite and means you don’t believe in equality. But when has anyone claimed the United States isn’t hypocritical?

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        Steve and me are entities. Democracy is an ideology.

        You cannot support an ideology while also supporting its polar opposite.

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          Yes, I can, if I choose to be a hypocrite. I can push for both.

          Picture a seesaw. Polar opposite sides. Raising one lowers the other. We can support both sides with bricks to make it a table. Both sides are supported. But neither shows progress.

          I think we’re disagreeing on the word supported.

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      Jesus that’s a helluva straw man you got there.

      🎶 If you only had a brain…🎶