• jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Extinguishing an ideology is not murder. I don’t support it (I’m a moderate leftist myself), but it isn’t murder.

        I never expected to have a use for the de dicto - de re distinction, but what he wants to do is eliminate leftists de dicto (that is, make it such that there are no leftists) rather than de re (that is, take everyone who is currently a leftist and make them not exist). The latter would be murder. The former is not, although it can still fuck right off.

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          1 year ago

          He said the left, which is people, not the ideology.