I really need to stop getting baited with this shit. I got greyed for replying to someone else, too.

Good on you for trying, but you know there’s no debating with these people. You’re either right or a nazi. No inbetween.

As long as you understand that this makes you a violent criminal and accept that there are consequences for your taking this action, go right ahead.

My father is a retired Lt. Col. and has served in multiple wars. He is also one of the most accepting and tolerant people I know. Something he said when I was younger has stuck with me my whole life: “There are things that people say and do that make me absolutely sick. But it is my duty to protect their right to do…

You miss the point.It’s not ok to punch him because in general, people can’t be trusted to decide who they are and are not allowed to assault. Holding that line as an absolute is far more important than withholding its protections from people who don’t deserve them.

That doesn’t mean you should resort to violence. The ends don’t justify the means. Preventing fascism should not be done by assaulting political pundits.

As far as I am aware, the person who got punched in the face for his political opinion has not advocates for crimes, but for the government to take actions to make it stop being a crime and then doing it. You can’t say someone’s future actions will be illegal and arrest them for something they haven’t done.

He means tolerated as in not physically assaulted for expressing their views, not tolerated as in accepted by society as a valid viewpoint.

Hate speech is speech, and therefore it falls under free speech. Hate speech requires a line to be drawn where someone can be arrested for expressing their beliefs, and I simply cannot support that.

Saying being punched in the face is a consequence of being a Nazi is the same as saying being catcalled is a consequence of dressing sexily.

All views are allowed to be held without being physically attacked. I hold the same view for communists, theocrats, and anarchists. All views I strongly disagree with, but will deal with without punching them.

It is not justified behavior. The fact of the matter is this man committed a crime (assault), simply because he disagreed with Richard Spencer.

who decides what speech is protected and which deserves to be violently subdued?

Oh, yeah, Germany...super tolerant with free speech.

And it does what, exactly? Except make you feel better? Do you think it will stop them? Make them rethink? Will it help educate them?

That would qualify as a hate-crime. Neo-Nazis, just like any ideology are protected under the laws of free speech, and are allowed to hold rallies and attend them and yes speak. You aren’t forced to listen to them, or forced to agree with them, but you most certainly aren’t allowed to punch them for their ideology. It…

How can you not see the fucking HYPCOCRISY in what you just wrote, man?!

IS this why the Grüne and SPD are losing more and more? Is this the reason why AFD now has 25% in Brandenburg? It is because of the same reason America voted Trump for. We are now in a state we where during Weimarer Republik.

All he is saying. Is that you have to take the good with the bad. Or you end suppressing certain thoughts, and that’s just as bad as the hate speech to begin with. See what i mean. Ok nother example: Let’s take “tom sawyer” out of the school library because the word “Nigger” is in it. That’s the kind of action you are…

How bout Jews getting punch in the face for what they are doing to the Palestinian? I mean the Jews did steal it from the Arabs.