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“Liberals allow right-wingers on their platforms to have a ‘civilized discussion,’ but there’s no reasoning with racists. I don’t want them to have a platform that humanizes them. I want to talk down to them and meet them exactly where they are, with absolutely no respect.” Thus spoke JPEGMAFIA, a poet of rage and rebellion, whose words burn with the heat of lived injustice. In these words, he rejects complacency disguised as civility, and civility that masks cowardice. He speaks as one who has seen too much of the world’s cruelty to believe that evil can be reformed by comfort or courtesy. His declaration is not born of hatred, but of moral defiance — a cry that calls truth by its rightful name and refuses to clothe it in politeness.

When JPEGMAFIA condemns the act of giving “racists a platform,” he speaks to an age-old conflict — between the ideals of tolerance and the necessity of justice. For centuries, the powerful have used the language of civility to silence the oppressed. “Be calm,” they say. “Be reasonable. Debate your own dehumanization.” But to this, the artist responds as prophets once did: with fury tempered by clarity. To humanize what is inhuman, to reason with what denies reason, is to betray the very idea of equality. He understands what many fear to admit — that hatred must not be negotiated with, but confronted.

This spirit of confrontation has echoed through every age. In the ancient world, when Socrates debated ideas, he did so to awaken minds. But when Spartacus rose against Rome, he did not debate — he acted. Both served truth, but in different ways. JPEGMAFIA’s words belong to the lineage of Spartacus, of Frederick Douglass, of Malcolm X — those who refused to reason with chains. For they knew that dialogue with those who deny another’s humanity is not dialogue at all, but submission disguised as civility. True speech must sometimes thunder, not whisper; it must burn away hypocrisy before it can illuminate truth.

In our modern age, when every voice has a platform, the danger grows greater: evil cloaks itself in eloquence, wearing the garments of reason to deceive the naive. The racist, the demagogue, the manipulator — they thrive not in silence, but in the echo chambers of “civil debate,” where their poison is dressed as opinion, their malice as discourse. JPEGMAFIA tears off that mask and reminds us: some ideas are not equal, and some hearts cannot be persuaded by talk. Respect, he teaches, is sacred — and to give it to those who destroy others is to profane it.

His defiance may seem harsh to those who prize peace above justice, but history vindicates him. When Martin Luther King Jr. marched through Birmingham, he was condemned not only by racists, but by the “moderates” who told him to wait — to be reasonable. “Your methods are too extreme,” they said. But King, like JPEGMAFIA, understood that politeness in the face of oppression is complicity. One must sometimes shake the world awake, for the sleepers of comfort are deaf to quiet truth. To “talk down” to evil, as JPEGMAFIA says, is not to descend in dignity, but to strip false respect from those unworthy of it.

And yet, beneath the fury of his words lies a deeper message: the defense of human dignity. His anger is not the hatred of man, but the hatred of injustice. It is the fire that guards compassion, for love without boundaries becomes weakness. Just as a physician burns the wound to heal it, the righteous must sometimes burn through lies to preserve truth. In this, JPEGMAFIA’s philosophy is not cruelty, but courage — the courage to speak plainly, to refuse the seduction of civility when it serves only to protect power.

So, my children, take this lesson and carry it like a flame: Respect is sacred — do not waste it on those who despise others. When you meet cruelty, do not smile to seem noble; stand tall, unflinching. Know that peace without justice is not peace, but surrender. Be gentle with the innocent, patient with the ignorant, but unyielding before the wicked. When others disguise hatred as debate, call it by its name. For truth must never kneel to false civility, nor conscience to comfort.

Let this be your wisdom: there is a time to speak softly and a time to roar. Know the difference. As JPEGMAFIA reminds us, not every enemy deserves dialogue — some deserve defeat. To honor what is right, you must sometimes refuse to respect what is wrong. And in that refusal, you do not abandon humanity — you protect it.