Someone of good character will maintain a consistent degree of tolerance, politeness and open-mindedness regardless of what other people do. If you let the behavior of others affect you then you're letting them control you.
Someone can be a raging lunatic but you don't beat them by matching their rage and insanity with your own. You don't win by becoming a raging lunatic yourself. You win by maintaining consistent standards and principles and standing by them, firm, refusing to budge. This doesn't require you to abandon civility.
Tolerance isn't weakness as long as it's principled. Politeness isn't weakness as long as it's honest and uncompromising. Open-mindedness isn't weakness as long as it's grounded in reality.
There is no situation where you're required to abandon your principles to win -- not even in all-out war. Without principles you're no different than they are.
Many people on the right are so blackpilled, desperate and angry they want to throw out everything and just become a mirror version of the enemy, albeit pointed in the opposite direction. This is a big mistake.
Politeness isn't weakness as long as it's honest and uncompromising.
Politeness is good if it brings you some benefit. If you come out straight and act rudely to someone, this can be an excuse to dismiss you because "you were rude". Far better to be polite and either force an answer, or admit that it is not about rudeness but the fact that this individual tolerates no dissenting views.
Someone of good character will maintain a consistent degree of tolerance, politeness and open-mindedness regardless of what other people do. If you let the behavior of others affect you then you're letting them control you.
Someone can be a raging lunatic but you don't beat them by matching their rage and insanity with your own. You don't win by becoming a raging lunatic yourself. You win by maintaining consistent standards and principles and standing by them, firm, refusing to budge. This doesn't require you to abandon civility.
Tolerance isn't weakness as long as it's principled. Politeness isn't weakness as long as it's honest and uncompromising. Open-mindedness isn't weakness as long as it's grounded in reality.
There is no situation where you're required to abandon your principles to win -- not even in all-out war. Without principles you're no different than they are.
Many people on the right are so blackpilled, desperate and angry they want to throw out everything and just become a mirror version of the enemy, albeit pointed in the opposite direction. This is a big mistake.
Politeness is good if it brings you some benefit. If you come out straight and act rudely to someone, this can be an excuse to dismiss you because "you were rude". Far better to be polite and either force an answer, or admit that it is not about rudeness but the fact that this individual tolerates no dissenting views.