Re: LOL

Third of all, "fake nice" as you put it (I call it manners) is standard social procedure for getting anywhere.

What?

Manners is being nice for a stranger who has never done anything specific to you to "deserve" you acting nice.

What LOD means is being nice to someone who has done something specific to you to not deserve you being nice.

And it's not standard procedure for anything. Go and read blog posts published in August, during the debt standoff, and see if they are being fake nice between both positions. Of course they weren't, and would even take justified offense at the suggestion they "have manners".

And I ultimately agree with you that the situation is different and that being radical won't lead us anywhere. I just think the causes for both are bigger and certainly supersede the choice of tactics. The situation is different because there is no going back from our ultimate extermination. At least gays were good dancers, hairdressers and couture designers and everyone tolerated them for that; we are good teachers and priests but explicitly forbidden from both so we lose our applicable social purpose and nobody defends us because of a simile to "who will do my hair when gays are no more?" With this, being nice or radical is indifferent when you are already in Auschwitz - either way your days are counted.

But I will differ that being radical would be worse than being fake nice had we any chance. Then it could matter.