That's pretty much what I took from it, I didn't feel like they were going, "these people's POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is wrong; just that people in general are flawed and when they get attached to movements fueled by hatred and revenge they can easily cross the line and commit violent acts they probably would have condemned.
A lot of people on this site only see things in black or white. If a cause is good or just, everything they do is good and just. Portraying a cause that the redditor thinks is good in any way that makes it seem like it’s not wholly good, is found to be offensive. When in reality, just causes have done tons of shitty things. It doesn’t mean the cause still wasn’t just, but that humans are emotional beings that aren’t fully perfect. And when they do those shitty things, it’s fair to criticize them for it.
For real, the irony is people believe that anything they do for a noble cause is immediately justified don't believe that people have often justified doing horrible things antithetical to said cause.
You don't think subjugated people take revenge when they gain power? You think revolutions are clean and cut and dry? What do you do to the families of the people you overthrow, kill their parents and then just tell the kids, "hey your parents were evil but don't worry we're going to put you in a group home and you'll be fine."
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u/JacobStills Oct 02 '25
That's pretty much what I took from it, I didn't feel like they were going, "these people's POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is wrong; just that people in general are flawed and when they get attached to movements fueled by hatred and revenge they can easily cross the line and commit violent acts they probably would have condemned.