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discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 11:18 AM Sep 2020

Always call the liars on their lies

"And therein is a lesson that can be learned by all who fight the purveyors of hatred and lies. Though the battle against our opponents is exceptionally important, the opponents themselves are not. Their arguments make as much sense as flat-earth theory. However, in dramatic contrast to flat-earthers, they can cause tremendous pain and damage. Some of them use violence. Others, as Hajo Funke said in Berlin as we sat in the shadow of the Reichstag, use words that, in turn, encourage others to do harm. It was words that motivated those who blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, dragged an African-American down a logging road to his death, tortured a young homosexual in Wyoming, stabbed a Jewish student to death on the streets of Crown Heights, blew up Israeli families about to celebrate the Passover Seder, and flew planes into the World Trade Center. We must conduct an unrelenting fight against those who encourage—directly or indirectly—others to do these things. But, even as we fight, we must not imbue our opponents with a primordial significance. We certainly must never attribute our existence to their attacks on us or let our battle against them become our raison d’etre. And as we fight them, we must dress them—or force them to dress themselves—in the jester’s costume. Ultimately, our victory comes when, even as we defeat them, we demonstrate not only how irrational, but how absolutely pathetic, they are."
― Deborah E. Lipstadt, Denial: Holocaust History on Trial
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Always call the liars on their lies (Original Post) discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2020 OP
I do KNOW when they beachbumbob Sep 2020 #1
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
1. I do KNOW when they
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 11:40 AM
Sep 2020

are called out as liars, they typically run and hide as politician. Hillary's #1 mistake was NOT going at trump with all her might at the debates. That will not happen with Biden unless trump finds a way to drug him

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