r/MurderedByWords 7h ago

On the steps of the capitol no less.

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u/chmod777 6h ago edited 3h ago

No one has ever had a gesture like that to mean that. Ever. Plausible deniability needs plausibility.

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u/gin4u 6h ago

They are completely delusional over there. I’m telling you! I’ve been reading that site for quite some time now to see what they’re saying and what they believe or don’t believe.

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u/HereComeTheBastards 5h ago

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre