Bingo. It’s treacly nonsense.
Bingo. It’s treacly nonsense.
That’s an unfair standard. Nothing is going to eradicate Nazism. Not violence and not peaceful discussion. Nazis will always exist in the same way that rape will always exist. So when dealing with Nazis the goal shouldn’t be “eradicate Nazis forever”, it should be “keep Nazism small and limit their sphere of…
Yeah a lot of Nazis were won over by hugs in 1930s Germany.
“He got punched because he is actively working to cause harm and death to innocent people.”
I can’t for the life of me understand why you, and so many others, find physical violence so much more reprehensible then rhetorical violence. Especially when rhetorical violence often causes far more harm then physical violence.
Do you want to do something non-violent and positive?
I’m mad about this because it totally justifies Fucking Richard Spencer continuing to drive this “white man victim” narrative.
Except nobody gives a rat’s fuck what Richard Spencer thinks, and nobody’s trying to “change his mind”. I think most of us will settle for Spencer is afraid to speak or be in public anymore. Fucking serious?
While you’re talking wistfully about hand holding and meeting Nazis halfway these fuckers are planning armed rallies and targeting Jewish communities.
wow did you just tell someone who shared a personal story about their childhood experience with violent racism that they should try and talk things out with someone who calls for the killing of black people?
You know why they called them the “Greatest Generation”? It’s because they killed Nazi’s. Not because they wrung their hands as to whether or not we should respect everybody’s opinions.
Richard Spencer is a 38 year-old college educated man who believes in ethnic cleansing. A punch isn’t gonna change his mind, but arguing wont either.
Reasoning with them hasn’t helped anything, treating white supremacy like another idea at the table is what got us here.
That’s because it’s not *always* wrong. It’s *almost* always wrong in *almost* everyone’s daily life. Violence is just a tool in the toolbox. One does not use a hammer to drive a screw, or a soldering iron to cook scrambled eggs. Violence is the tool of choice for dealing with Nazis and other such low forms of life,…
He was already saying the left is as violent as we accuse the alt-right of being. The only thing that changed is that he’s scared now.
Yea those moral victories are going to feel extra hollow when they start using the full force of the federal military to round up dissenters. But feel free to cry those tears for sad fascists.
But is it when that person advocates “peaceful ethnic cleansing,” something that has never existed in the history of the world? Genocide by any other name is still fucking unacceptable.