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Should it be legal for other people to assault you if they disagree with you?
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Yes 183 49.06%
No 190 50.94%
Total: 328 votes
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The ideology eater
Oct 20, 2010

IT'S GARBAGE DAY AT WENDY'S FUCK YEAH WE EATIN GOOD TONIGHT

Call Me Charlie posted:

You missed a part of my post.

Waiting until nazis feel strong enough to attack to take actual effective action is morally repugnant.

In other words:

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yellowyams
Jan 15, 2011
surely the laws will protect us, that worked so well before

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



if you punch a nazi you're basically a guy who bombs an abortion clinic - a confused liberal

Deified Data
Nov 3, 2015


Fun Shoe
It should always be punishable to punch the Nazi but I would never advise against it. Spicy food teaches us that some punishments are worth it.

Futuresight
Oct 11, 2012

IT'S ALL TURNED TO SHIT!
I'm kinda mad at the bystander that tried to unmask the hitter tbh.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Higsian posted:

I'm kinda mad at the bystander that tried to unmask the hitter tbh.

Reflexively defending people under attack makes you a good person, which puts him ahead of Actual Nazi Richard Spencer.

esto es malo
Aug 3, 2006

Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard

Higsian posted:

I'm kinda mad at the bystander that tried to unmask the hitter tbh.

The one guy that chased after the antifa is super weird and like a alt right genocide supporter who wants to bring in more minorities to the cause or something along those lines that was really bizarre.

Futuresight
Oct 11, 2012

IT'S ALL TURNED TO SHIT!

Lightning Knight posted:

Reflexively defending people under attack makes you a good person, which puts him ahead of Actual Nazi Richard Spencer.

Ok that's fair. I can forgive a reflex that kicks in before you remember it was a nazi getting hit.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

коммунизм хранится в яичках
So to more happily suit the thread, we shouldn't punch Nazis.

Rear naked chokes are more efficient.

PantherWill
Feb 23, 2013
If you German suplex a Nazi, is it ironic or just appropriate?

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

PantherWill posted:

If you German suplex a Nazi, is it ironic or just appropriate?

things can be ironically appropriate

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

Call Me Charlie posted:

I'll actually try to serious post.

Do you think it's cool to punch a communist in the face when you see them in public? Or for someone to punch a known anti-war activist for being a traitor to the country? Is a pro-life bomber justified in bombing an abortion clinic because, in their eyes, a baby holocaust is happening? Is Joseph Paul Franklin a heroic figure for shooting and paralyzing known scumbag and pornographer Larry Flynt for showcasing interracial sex in his magazine?

If you answered no to all of those then you can't support somebody assaulting or murdering a nazi for voicing their hosed up views.

That doesn't mean you have to sit back while they attempt to spread their doctrine. You can protest them. You can protest any venue that gives them a platform. You can protest any business that employs them. You can ostracize them. You can get the law involved when they try to make a show of force like those nazis that got arrested for 'terrorizing' in Welcome To Leith. But you can't beat or murder them unless they try to turn their hateful speech into action.

And honestly if you want to otherize literal neo-nazis and genocide advocates like Richard Spencer, you should stop trying to conflate them with Trump and the GOP.

(I saw this comic book writer get quoted in The New York Times so maybe his word will carry more weight than mine.

https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/822591535158034432
https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/822625805549367296
https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/822627812800692224
https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/822668442604015616
https://twitter.com/nickspencer/status/822972172666695681 )
Wrong.

Kilroy posted:

We should strive to normalize violence against Nazis, at the same time taking care not to normalize political violence in the general case.

If these two goals are in direct conflict, then your society and your government are being infiltrated by Nazis, and the second goal has to be temporarily set aside. And yeah, it's a serious problem that it's hard to reintroduce those political norms once they're broken down - that's why you're not supposed to allow Nazis to infiltrate your government and society in the first place. Yet here we are.
That's literally all there is to it.

By the time you've gotten to the point where Nazis have influential positions in your government, you're well past the "liberal democracy" stage. Acting like a liberal democrat in in spite of that fact, both empowers the Nazis and gets people killed.

This is what "lulled into complacency" feels like. You're so used to "we can talk it out" being a pillar of society that you've fooled yourself into thinking it's intrinsic to human nature itself. It is not, and even as fascists knock that pillar away you're convinced it still exists.

Kilroy fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jan 23, 2017

Pinch Me Im Meming
Jun 26, 2005
Farting on a Nazi is most appropriate but definitely not enough imo.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Hogge Wild posted:

Could you explain in your own words what you think that "battle" and "fascism" mean.

goddamn you post like a little bitch

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



Pinch Me Im Meming posted:

Farting on a Nazi is most appropriate but definitely not enough imo.

making GBS threads on them is both more appropriate and more drastic

on the left
Nov 2, 2013
I Am A Gigantic Piece Of Shit

Literally poo from a diseased human butt

Deified Data posted:

Law exists to serve justice, and necessarily has blindspots intentionally put into place by humans who wisely anticipated their own lack of objectivity - hence "it is illegal to assault someone".

However, Spencer is a Nazi and a plague on humanity - assaulting him is just, even if it's not legal. The illegality of the act isn't a tacit endorsement of his right to spread hate speech. It's just another blindspot. And a challenge.

While I don't think that killing an abortion doctor should be legal, I think it is justified and will obviously do everything in my power to ensure such a person avoids punishment for committing such a self-evidently just act.

Also, basically whatever Israel does to the nasty Nazi-like antisemites in Palestine is totally cool

on the left fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Jan 23, 2017

Roland Jones
Aug 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
A Thesis On And Defense Of Punching Nazis In Three Tweets:

https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/823650250036547584
https://twitter.com/ArtDifficulty/status/823652026450137088
https://twitter.com/guanoman/status/823602952782938113

The ideology eater
Oct 20, 2010

IT'S GARBAGE DAY AT WENDY'S FUCK YEAH WE EATIN GOOD TONIGHT

on the left posted:

While I don't think that killing an abortion doctor should be legal, I think it is justified and will obviously do everything in my power to ensure such a person avoids punishment for committing such a self-evidently just act.

That's pretty hosed up dude. Probably should feel that way about nazis instead.

on the left
Nov 2, 2013
I Am A Gigantic Piece Of Shit

Literally poo from a diseased human butt

The ideology eater posted:

That's pretty hosed up dude. Probably should feel that way about nazis instead.

All right-thinking people acknowledge that murdering millions of children is like another shoah, and that nobody would think twice about assasinating the modern equivalent of Dr. Goebbels in front of his family or using a pipe bomb to catch the collaborators as well.

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


quote:

Do you think it's cool to punch a communist in the face when you see them in public? Or for someone to punch a known anti-war activist for being a traitor to the country? Is a pro-life bomber justified in bombing an abortion clinic because, in their eyes, a baby holocaust is happening? Is Joseph Paul Franklin a heroic figure for shooting and paralyzing known scumbag and pornographer Larry Flynt for showcasing interracial sex in his magazine?

If you answered no to all of those then you can't support somebody assaulting or murdering a nazi for voicing their hosed up views.

You're comparing apples and oranges here because, and I re-iterate, the Nazis are a hate group so the don't abide by societal laws. Like even in their perfect ubermensch future, there would still be Nazis saying "well you know maybe you're not the right kind of white" because, and I say again, they're a hate group.

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

on the left posted:

All right-thinking people acknowledge that murdering millions of children is like another shoah, and that nobody would think twice about assasinating the modern equivalent of Dr. Goebbels in front of his family or using a pipe bomb to catch the collaborators as well.

fetuses aren't children, hope this helps

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

stone cold posted:

fetuses aren't children, hope this helps
honestly you should be able to kill children anyways because they suck

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax
don't engage "on the left" please, it's pointless

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

on the left
Nov 2, 2013
I Am A Gigantic Piece Of Shit

Literally poo from a diseased human butt

stone cold posted:

fetuses aren't children, hope this helps

One simple trick to killing anyone without remorse: make their humanity up for debate

Flowers For Algeria
Dec 3, 2005

I humbly offer my services as forum inquisitor. There is absolutely no way I would abuse this power in any way.


Man, all the liberals ITT who pontificate about punching Nazis are laughable.
Back in the day even the most milquetoast of liberals agreed that machine-gunning Nazis in WWII was a good thing. What has changed? Certainly not the Nazis.

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

on the left posted:

One simple trick to killing anyone without remorse: make their humanity up for debate

fetuses: more human than human women

Call Me Charlie
Dec 3, 2005

by Smythe

The ideology eater posted:

Waiting until nazis feel strong enough to attack to take actual effective action is morally repugnant.

In other words:


Are you cool with this line of thought if it said communist instead of nazi? If not, that's probably why you shouldn't condone or encourage that type of behavior.

Morally justified violence is a subjective thing and something that could easily be turned against you.

Roland Jones posted:

A Thesis On And Defense Of Punching Nazis In Three Tweets:

https://twitter.com/guanoman/status/823602952782938113

https://twitter.com/csbg/status/822906233225117696
(wait why are we trying to use kids' entertainment as an argument?)

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And again

Kilroy posted:

By the time you've gotten to the point where Nazis have influential positions in your government, you're well past the "liberal democracy" stage. Acting like a liberal democrat in in spite of that fact, both empowers the Nazis and gets people killed.

Call Me Charlie posted:

And honestly if you want to otherize literal neo-nazis and genocide advocates like Richard Spencer, you should stop trying to conflate them with Trump and the GOP.

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKOJAD46XVU

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Call Me Charlie posted:

Are you cool with this line of thought if it said communist instead of nazi? If not, that's probably why you shouldn't condone or encourage that type of behavior.

Morally justified violence is a subjective thing and something that could easily be turned against you.


https://twitter.com/csbg/status/822906233225117696

(wait why are we trying to use kids' entertainment as an argument?)
__________________________

And again

communists: well known for killing 12 million Jews, gay people, romani, mentally disabled people

communists: love genocide

communists: white supremacists

Flowers For Algeria
Dec 3, 2005

I humbly offer my services as forum inquisitor. There is absolutely no way I would abuse this power in any way.


Pacifism and non-violence are cool and good. I'm a pacifist and a non-violent person.

But defending oneself and one's friends against agression has never been at odds with pacifism and non-violence. This is basic survival, folks!

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Flowers For Algeria posted:

What has changed? Certainly not the Nazis.
The nazis have changed.

They aren't nearly as well dressed these days.

BUG JUG
Feb 17, 2005



Flowers For Algeria posted:

Pacifism and non-violence are cool and good. I'm a pacifist and a non-violent person.

But defending oneself and one's friends against agression has never been at odds with pacifism and non-violence. This is basic survival, folks!

William Lloyd Garrison wants a word with you...

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Call Me Charlie posted:

Are you cool with this line of thought if it said communist instead of nazi? If not, that's probably why you shouldn't condone or encourage that type of behavior.

Morally justified violence is a subjective thing and something that could easily be turned against you.


oh no, the guy advocating for literal white nationalism may do violence if you're violent to him :ohdear: we better not punch the nazi because he might make his racial cleansing agenda mor eviolent and it would be all our fault

yellowyams
Jan 15, 2011
someone who saves a woman from going through the traumatic experience of childbirth against her will even if she can't afford it or was raped is just like a nazi when u think about it

Flowers For Algeria
Dec 3, 2005

I humbly offer my services as forum inquisitor. There is absolutely no way I would abuse this power in any way.


Rent-A-Cop posted:

The nazis have changed.

They aren't nearly as well dressed these days.

Fair point, but all the more reason to punch them.

Man, I'm not even suggesting that you should machine-gun Nazis in the streets. I disapprove of the death penalty, even for political reasons. But if the authorities are not going to act against them in any meaningful way, then they should be made afraid to leave their homes, and made afraid to express their fascism in any public space.

The ideology eater
Oct 20, 2010

IT'S GARBAGE DAY AT WENDY'S FUCK YEAH WE EATIN GOOD TONIGHT

Call Me Charlie posted:

Are you cool with this line of thought if it said communist instead of nazi? If not, that's probably why you shouldn't condone or encourage that type of behavior.

No! I also wouldn't be cool with it if it said babies! Just Nazis! Here is another diagram that may help:

Flowers For Algeria
Dec 3, 2005

I humbly offer my services as forum inquisitor. There is absolutely no way I would abuse this power in any way.


BUG JUG posted:

William Lloyd Garrison wants a word with you...

Man, I'd like to avoid talking with religious nuts if at all possible. Garrison was a principled man, all right, but there's a higher purpose at work in defending society against fascism. So if I must stain my hands and lose access to paradise in order to defend society, so be it: I'll go to hell knowing that I am more moral than the people in paradise. And I'm okay with that, because there is no afterlife.

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

yellowyams posted:

someone who saves a woman from going through the traumatic experience of childbirth against her will even if she can't afford it or was raped is just like a nazi when u think about it

"that woman is less of a person than a fetus, makes u think

this is why punching nazis is bad"

-not a babyman

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000
He's using the attack as an escalation - Richard Spencer isn't actually afraid yet. Hope this helps.

Next time there will be 50 Nazis in the street.

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Deified Data
Nov 3, 2015


Fun Shoe
The Nazis are literally the closest thing we've ever seen to a living, breathing enemy to all humanity. Like, evil on a cosmic scale. I've often said that no modern war has been worth fighting and would happily dodge the draft but even I still admit that the Nazis were worth purging, and would sign up to do so as a moral obligation if it were asked of me. The question should always be "are we too tolerant of Nazism?", not "are we tolerant enough?"

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