Again, Franklin, you continue to conflate Leninism/Stalinism/Maoism, which were statist forms of capitalism that included class rule and authoritarian governments run by an oligarchy, with the classless, bureaucratless, and moneyless system proposed by Marx and Engels. Creating a better world for the working class on both an economic fro…
Again, Franklin, you continue to conflate Leninism/Stalinism/Maoism, which were statist forms of capitalism that included class rule and authoritarian governments run by an oligarchy, with the classless, bureaucratless, and moneyless system proposed by Marx and Engels. Creating a better world for the working class on both an economic front and regarding civil liberties is fully in line with classical liberalism, and an economic democracy would not have an authoritarian state. I think the major beef of liberalism is that it wants to retain capitalism, which does no favor for democracy.
There is a huge difference between an economic system and identity politics. FAIR made no statements of being against any economic system. You are trying to compare apples with oranges here. For instance, I have no problem with conservatives who espouse a continuation of some form of capitalism as part of FAIR. I knew that going in. But tolerating the promotion of Zionism, which is a form of identity politics in every sense of the word? That is a whole other ball of wax.
I saw plenty of articles already promoting Zionism, along with promotions of it in the comments. Creating articles that argue for students at universities being banned for protesting against Israel and calling them anti-semtic are most certainly doing that.
A member who showed up last week? Last week was just the first time you saw one of my comments. I've been following FAIR for about a year now and it's only in the past two months that I started seeing pro-Zionist articles. I was shocked to see it, as it was not what I signed up for. I went to a video orientation months ago and never was Zionism mentioned on it. I find that interesting.
"Reorganize" FAIR to "my liking"? How about simply demand that it sticks to its principles and stop giving a form of identity politics, one that is now being used to promote war across the world, the exceptional treatment that all forms of identity politics ask for? That's all I'm saying here.
I think, to the contrary, that I and others who are making these complaints are bringing immense value to FAIR, because they were pointing out a huge, glaring, and disturbing discrepancy to its stated principles where. I hope the administration eventually decides to deal with the problem as it should deal with it. And for the second time, you said goodbye to me, so I must say for a second time today that I'm sorry it came to this between us.
Again, Franklin, you continue to conflate Leninism/Stalinism/Maoism, which were statist forms of capitalism that included class rule and authoritarian governments run by an oligarchy, with the classless, bureaucratless, and moneyless system proposed by Marx and Engels. Creating a better world for the working class on both an economic front and regarding civil liberties is fully in line with classical liberalism, and an economic democracy would not have an authoritarian state. I think the major beef of liberalism is that it wants to retain capitalism, which does no favor for democracy.
There is a huge difference between an economic system and identity politics. FAIR made no statements of being against any economic system. You are trying to compare apples with oranges here. For instance, I have no problem with conservatives who espouse a continuation of some form of capitalism as part of FAIR. I knew that going in. But tolerating the promotion of Zionism, which is a form of identity politics in every sense of the word? That is a whole other ball of wax.
I saw plenty of articles already promoting Zionism, along with promotions of it in the comments. Creating articles that argue for students at universities being banned for protesting against Israel and calling them anti-semtic are most certainly doing that.
A member who showed up last week? Last week was just the first time you saw one of my comments. I've been following FAIR for about a year now and it's only in the past two months that I started seeing pro-Zionist articles. I was shocked to see it, as it was not what I signed up for. I went to a video orientation months ago and never was Zionism mentioned on it. I find that interesting.
"Reorganize" FAIR to "my liking"? How about simply demand that it sticks to its principles and stop giving a form of identity politics, one that is now being used to promote war across the world, the exceptional treatment that all forms of identity politics ask for? That's all I'm saying here.
I think, to the contrary, that I and others who are making these complaints are bringing immense value to FAIR, because they were pointing out a huge, glaring, and disturbing discrepancy to its stated principles where. I hope the administration eventually decides to deal with the problem as it should deal with it. And for the second time, you said goodbye to me, so I must say for a second time today that I'm sorry it came to this between us.