• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    Those who still retain the smallest fractions of their humanities can still be reasoned with… But how many of those are left, especially in the West? I know those in power are maniacs, but can the people cheering on the current violent repressions and slide into fascism in America be talked into sense? Oh well.

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      … I would go so far as to suggest that Mandela, Gandhi, and MLK Jr. were addressing significantly more hostile audiences than protesters in the modern West.