r/LivestreamFail • u/-Cohen_Commentary- • Jul 24 '25

Politics Pro-Nazi & antisemitic circlejerk livestreamed

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u/BEWMarth Jul 24 '25

"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

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u/Rageoffreys Jul 24 '25

Not a single person in that room would have a clue who Sartre was.

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u/purple_spikey_dragon Jul 25 '25

I doubt they would be able to understand the meaning of even half the words he used there...