Re: Boris Johnson urged to fire adviser who has voiced support for eugenics
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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There has been a lack of common sense and logical thinking in the last few years. We need more rational thinking and less of the "creative" but impractical ideas that lead us down a rabbit hole to "alice in wonderland" governing.
It's interesting that insults are now used to attack people who disagree with extremist ideology. People only resort to insults when they have no rational argument. The fact is that the sort of theories written about by this individual led to the implementation of pre-Holocaust, anti-Semitic policy in Germany in the 1930s so don't call it "woke" to defend such views. It's right to reject this type of thinking.
I think you have that rather the wrong way round Annie. If you look back historically some of the most useful inventions we have today would never have made it into reality without some off the wall thinking. Many of the early inventors and creative thinkers were considered crazy, who would ever have thought at one time you could boil a kettle of water with an electrical current that came out of the end of a cable. Quite often it takes people thinking outside of the box to make the new discoveries.
I'm not quite sure what you mean about insults being made to attack people but there again I think you have that the wrong way round. If you are saying that I insulted you personally when I was referring to the woke brigade generally I wasn't aware that you consider yourself one of them. However I will say this that it seems to me recently that everyone of these incidents that spring up, someone somewhere or other attempts to link them to the Holocaust.
I thought I was making the argument that people are entitled to believe what they want to believe right or wrong. What is wrong is the current various campaigns in the social elite and for want of a better word the woke brigade and others to force their views of a minority group onto the majority. To try to have somebody removed or resign from his post by constant harassment, leaking of half-truths or even outright lies before we've even heard what he's had to say.
As I said before you can't change people's views by force and in my opinion there will always be people around who are racist, bigoted, or both of these,