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The point is, that it is a privileged position to not worry about how others are abused. Just because you "mind your own business" doesn't mean the 13-year-old down the street isn't getting dragged to a gas chamber.
Being apolitical is a cowardly way to live and makes you a horrible fucking person.
Imagine this quote in reverse. Imagine that the issue is with people being pacifist towards communism. Then what? Who is evil now? You think communism hasn’t been responsible for its own atrocities? These are just forms of government but man is the one who is corrupted.
The people committing atrocities are evil. I hate this sort of argument. Not everyone is so tied to their ideology that they overlook basic morality.
“What if we unseal those documents and it turns out some of YOUR SIDE did the bad thing too?” Then they are shit people who should be punished for doing the shit thing.