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Topic	Do Richard Spencer and other Neo-Nazis deserve to be punched?
A_Good_Boy 08/13/18 12:59:43 AM #21:	TheMikh posted... DrizztLink posted... TheMikh posted... physically assaulting people for their beliefs doesn't change their beliefs, and at worst reinforces and further radicalizes them True, for worthwhile ideaologies. Punching a Nazi is like slapping an old TV. If you hit it just right, maybe it'll stop fucking everything up. once upon a time a popular reactionary scholar in egypt was tortured for his dissidence and his writing grew so radical as a result of that torture that he literally gave birth to the philosophy that influences religious terrorists in the middle east and beyond and has diffused even to the more radical elements of the reactionary right in the west violence has a butterfly effect This didn't happen in 2016, it didn't happen in 2017, it's not happening in 2018, and it's never gonna happen in the future. Nobody is looking at nazis getting punched and thinking that ethnic cleansing is now an ok thing to do. Awareness is not the same as support. Just because people are doing more Google searches about white supremacists after they get punched doesn't mean that they're signing up for their ideology as well. You're gonna have to give up this fiction that punching nazis only makes them more powerful. --- Who is? I am! <cite>A_Good_Boy posted [p:906782702] in Do Richard... [t:76897433]...</cite> <quote><cite>TheMikh posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DrizztLink posted...</cite> <quote><cite>TheMikh posted...</cite> <quote>physically assaulting people for their beliefs doesn't change their beliefs, and at worst reinforces and further radicalizes them</quote> True, for worthwhile ideaologies. Punching a Nazi is like slapping an old TV. If you hit it just right, maybe it'll stop fucking everything up.</quote> once upon a time a popular reactionary scholar in egypt was tortured for his dissidence and his writing grew so radical as a result of that torture that he literally gave birth to the philosophy that influences religious terrorists in the middle east and beyond and has diffused even to the more radical elements of the reactionary right in the west violence has a butterfly effect</quote> This didn't happen in 2016, it didn't happen in 2017, it's not happening in 2018, and it's never gonna happen in the future. Nobody is looking at nazis getting punched and thinking that ethnic cleansing is now an ok thing to do. Awareness is not the same as support. Just because people are doing more Google searches about white supremacists after they get punched doesn't mean that they're signing up for their ideology as well. You're gonna have to give up this fiction that punching nazis only makes them more powerful. --- Who is? I am!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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