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Re: Anarchy Makes me Panicky

Postby Zazaban » Sat Oct 10, 2009 4:25 pm

I'm pretty sure this guy is a parody. It's obvious if you think about it, it's just so over the top.
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Re: Anarchy Makes me Panicky

Postby AndyMalroes » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:28 pm

Agreed, other people who post here straw man a lot more
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Postby lplawhead » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:46 pm

Middle Class Values wrote:Look, I don't like this "militancy" thing or this sick "fetish" of yours. As a proud upholder of middleclass morality and values both of these terms have a high "yuck" factor. Anarchism itself suggests moral decay, ill-kept lawns and paper-strewn streets. To an upstanding citizen such as myself who happily obeys the letter of the law the inherent untidiness of anarchism is repulsive.

The world is dangerous and unsafe. Bad people lurk in every corner. It is only the law which protects us from the predatory behaviour of the working classes. Anarchy would deliver the masses a license to torment and encircle morally superior members of my class - the middle class.

The prospect of anarchy is bad enough, but this "fetish" thinking is completely appalling to someone such as myself who wholeheartedly embraces middle-class beliefs and sustains a superior morality. Frankly, some proto-nazi's thoughts on the subject are of no interest to a person of my high moral values.


Do those values include the exploitation of those who actually work? Do they include forcing your will on other people? Do you understand that the government serves to protect the elite from the rest of us and not people like you from false foreign threats? Do you agree with manufactured consent? Is it ok for the media to be controlled by those with the most money? Do you honestly think the justice/prison system is a glowing example of that which is right in the world? Do you know how to use your brain to think for yourself and realize the world is bigger than your middle class neighborhood? do you realize anything at all? What makes you think you stand on moral high ground?

Zazaban wrote:I'm pretty sure this guy is a parody. It's obvious if you think about it, it's just so over the top.


I think you're right, nobody is that intentionally dense, I HOPE.
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