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Dealing with an exploitative dictator by overthrowing that ruler and replacing them with oneself as dictator is fighting the dictator, but not dictatorship. Likewise, one can fight fundamentalists in a manner that is equally fundamentalist and so does not fight fundamentalism<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This was a comment I left on a recent blog post about diagnosing and treating unreformed fundamentalism<\/a>. See also Libby Anne\u2019s response to Allan Bevere\u2019s post<\/a>, in which she offers some interesting push-back on a number of points.<\/p>\n
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