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Response to ZombieHorde (Reply #11)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 03:15 PM

12. Government actions are much more real than Snape's

 

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You're a hypocrite because you said governments and churches are imaginary, and yet you post on a site dedicated to governments, government parties, government members, and government institutions. If you truly didn't believe those things existed, you wouldn't post on this site...and yet you do. If you actually think discussions of those killed in Palestine and Israel or our real Government's real use of torture is just discussion of "propaganda," you have my sympathies.

Also, governments and churches operate out of real buildings--have you seen the Vatican?--in specific material places. They are run by material people who extend their power through material means. The victims of the holocaust weren't just killed by "social/rhetorical constructs." They were killed by material gas chambers run by real people and technology overseen by a real Nazi government in real buildings imbricated in social/rhetorical constructs. Big difference.

I'm sure the victims of the Inquisition, or Native Americans wiped out by the American Government and its material army, would have loved to hear you tell them Churches and governments are "imaginary." I'm sure it would have been very comforting. If you could tell them they were no more real than Dumbledore, I'm sure they would be truly comforted...

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