@raprap,
raprap wrote:As for David's obsession, I agree with his distaste of authoritarianism.
My problem is with David's narrow definition.
Communism is only one type of authoritarian politics.
There're many types or authoritarians.
SO STIPULATED.
I 've never doubted that fact.
As a boy, I offered
anti-authoritarian arguments
against the
parents of friends my age.
In high school, I went on NYC radio and denounced
my school principal for extortion, qua his usurpation
of
de facto taxation of the students
(inordinate pressure to contribute to the "General Organization").
raprap wrote:bigots, racists, anti-Muslim 'haters' are authoritarian
I doubt that; if Arizonans did not think much of Mexicans,
that did not make us try to
CONTROL them, necessarily,
not to exercise authority over them. Its just holding opinions
about their race (unless u define racist differently).
If New Yorkers residually hate the Moslems because of friends
or family members murdered in the World Trade Center,
that has
nothing to do with
AUTHORITARIANISM.
People 's emotions, including hate, fear, resentment, love, joy
are all personal and private matters that are irrelevant to
authoritarianism.