RWBY & RT General Discussion Thread (V1)

Aaron Fox

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Uhhh... what, and what?
Libertarianism in the US is, sadly, deeply connected to Objectivism (a type of anarcho-capitalist ideology, i.e. government is bad, taxes are bad, greed is a virtue... that sort of thing) after the book Atlas Shrugged came out. In essence, the Libertarians tended to be the 'Lolibertarians', thinking that Objectivism is Libertarianism... when it's not.
 
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Matrix Dragon

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It's the belief we can't see racism unless it's spelt out in soul breaking detail. It also leads people to insist Blake never did anything about the White Fang or Faunus rights.
 

Aaron Fox

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The thing about the White Fang is that... it went the route that various similar organizations in human history went down. Where groups get coopted by horrible people and turned into an unrecognizable curvature of themselves. The various African-American non-violent civil rights groups slowly became groups like the militaristic Black Panthers or whatever Malcolm X was running because the change isn't fast enough (despite the fact that the only way to get lasting change is to take it slow).
 

Zam

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I would note that neither the Black Panthers, not Malcom X and his followers were terrorists, the mainstream US media represented them that way but it was never accurate, this is why I feel the IRA is a much better analogue for the WF. They did utilize violence, but they managed it carefully at first, before splinter factions arose and corruption took hold.


I don't have any problems with Cat.
Cool do you wanna send an invite?
 

Aaron Fox

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I would note that neither the Black Panthers, not Malcom X and his followers were terrorists, the mainstream US media represented them that way but it was never accurate, this is why I feel the IRA is a much better analogue for the WF. They did utilize violence, but they managed it carefully at first, before splinter factions arose and corruption took hold.
Yes and... no. My understanding is that there are reasons that the Black Panthers and Malcom X got labeled as terrorists, it's just exaggerated because it's the white south that has been doing the talking, so to speak.

They didn't do the high-profile shit that the likes of the KKK (there are numerous reasons that they literally had a stranglehold on Southern politics until Director Hoover made an example of them) or IRA did, but they did kill people and did low-level terrorist things.
 

Pugman

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walls don't budge, why do I bother >.<
wonder if I'm gonna get in trouble with a mod soon because of it >.>
 

Matrix Dragon

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I loved the guy that decided to change how the staff worked, then revert to canon, and Penny stopped Atlas from falling by sacrificing herself to make a Penny Pillar of Ice. Then he deleted all his posts and is now busy claiming Blacksun was the original plan, and there are no hints of BB at all in the first few volumes.
 
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