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Any detailed and thorough books about slavery in Ancient Rome?

>>10350794
>Like I said earlier, act-speech or emotional speech, or speech without the intent of saying the truth doesn't only happen on the far-right, or the right, or the center : it happens all over the political spectrum, and across all individuals. Some may use it more . . .
>This sort of speech gets mixed in everyday dialogue (in the form of memes, inside jokes) . . .
I agree with you that act-speech isn't exclusively a fascist phenomena, but it is particularly prominent among fascists. In fact, most fascists and quasi-fascists use act-speech significantly more than any other rhetorical tool. The result is that their lectures, writings, and other media aren't actually "speech" in the sense that Liberals value (aimed at seeking the truth, open, honest, etc.). Rather, fascist media is a collection of political acts. This is what motivates antifa — they don't see someone engaging in dialog, trying to uncover the truth; they see someone engaging in acts that cause harm.

>>10350838
>Using emotional speech is part of being a human being, and part of religious behaviour, which we are all guilty of.
As I said above, act-speech isn't the problem. It's mostly- or exclusively act-based speech which antifascists view as worth protesting. Again, if some act-speech gets mixed in with some truth-seeking-speech, fine, but if it's the bulk of what you're using, then you aren't actually speaking —you're acting.

>Chanting canticles isn't and shouldn't be illegal because it isn't aimed at truth.
I agree that any anti-speech law is dumb, but I also think any anti-firearms law is dumb. If someone makes a good-faith argument, I think you should make good-faith arguments back. If someone engages in act-speech, then you should act-speak back. If someone shoots at you, you should shoot back. That's the critical distinction: non-escalation. It's about responding appropriately to different kinds of interlocutors. Nobody in antifa wants to make any kind of laws about speech (act- or otherwise) — they want to respond to speech appropriately.

>Not giving Nazis platforms, makes them go underground where they can foster in an aura of victimhood.
If a martyr falls in the forest, and no-one is there to hear him, does his lack of a platform cause a political movement?

>You can have some common beliefs, and not be a member of the KKK. If Milo shares one or two points with them, it doesn't mean he's one of them.
This is true. But you have to remember that Milo isn't speaking in good faith. He doesn't always mean what he says, and he doesn't always say what he means. The thing about reparations, for example, is probably ironic, or only deployed to avoid accusations of racism. You can't just analyze the literal content of his speech. You have to look at what it does. Milo's speech doesn't have a focus on truth. It has a focus on provoking a response. It's act-speech, not Liberal truth-seeking speech.

I'll get to your newer posts in a few minutes.

>>10302970
I leave, because Barnes and Noble is a trash bookstore.

If hypothetical scenario were relocated somewhere else, I'd find whatever book I was looking for, pay for it, and be on my way.

If she addressed me, I'd make polite small talk and see where things went.
>Watcha reading?

I was smart at school, but holy fuck was I a fedora.

>be 12
>read The God Delusion
>constantly tell all the other kids at (heavily christian) school that they're all dumb for believing in an invisible sky daddy
>history teacher tells that old "Would you abort this fucked up fetus? Congrats you just aborted Beethoven" anecdote in class
>stand up and shout "Sir, that is factually incorrect!"
>entire class starts laughing and booing
>teacher asks how I know this
>"I read The God Delusion. You should too, maybe then you wouldn't base your morals on a fictional old man in the sky."
>class keeps laughing
>the shame hits me and I sit down
>entire class mocks me for the next 2 years
>teacher joins in

>also 12
>read Freud
>keep telling my class that they'll never be as smart as me because I read "Frood" and they don't
>keep telling other kids about castration fear, Oedipus and other sexual shit
>do it so much that the school counselor calls me in and tells me to cool it the fuck down
>keep pronouncing his name as "Frood" for several years after

>be 14
>discover Marx
>bring up communism in every fucking conversation, even in class
>try to start a school communist party at school
>1 guy shows up
>threaten to beat up another kid for bringing an Ayn Rand book to school because she's "an exploitative capitalist bourgeois hack who supports racism, sexism and the tyranny of the few"

>be 15
>discover de Sade
>changedmylife.jpeg
>get it into my head that I can write just like de Sade
>write a shit-ton of stories mostly about women torturing and raping kids to death
>try to read these stories to my classmates
>nobody wants to hear that shit
>this one really meek and awkward German boy is too awkward to tell me to fuck off
>end up reading my stories to him for an hour
>afterwards he walks off without saying a word or even looking at me
>was expelled shortly after that