[mark_edward]

American Renaissance is a white nationalist publication, the person you are replying to has no interest in the truth.

[erikpukinskis]

I think that's disingenuous. We are all caught up in political ideologies. We may be resisting and still desirous of truth. We might have both desire and fear, and fear might be winning.

I think the practice of ad homineming your political enemies is harmful to anyone's political aims. It strengthens your hold over your base, but it makes it harder for you to grow the boundary beyond it.

[mark_edward]

Sorry, not concerned about convincing people who think I'm subhuman, or convinced they're at all open to convincing.

[erikpukinskis]

White nationalists don't necessarily believe you are subhuman.

And many white progressives do. Perhaps most. They just won't say it to your face.

I don't think drawing the distinction where you are is actually cordoning off the thing you hope to cordon off.

[mark_edward]

Of course not, they just believe this is a white christian nation and we should be packed off on a boat (again) and shipped somewhere I don't know and have never been. Or maybe we will be mysteriously """convinced""" to "self-deport".

[erikpukinskis]

Many white liberals want exactly that, for the parts of you that they're afraid of.

They believe in a fictional you who can stay.

[1dundundun]

Thank you. That helps.