Re: On Political Violence
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 4:35 am
Man, I wish it were possible to click "Like" on Forum posts.Fuzzy Necromancer wrote:Admiral X, I'd like to reply to your "if you are socialist/communist you are responsible for the bad things that happened under the communist regime" comment.
You can be a communist without approving of mass violence against religious people and Stalin.
You can be a democrat without supporting Hillary Clinton and her hawkish politics.
You can be a conservative without support the Donald and whatever dumpster fire he's involved himself with at the time of this post.
...you can't be a Nazi without approving of Hitler and being pro-genocide.
That's really the crux of my argument.
There is nothing civil about promoting ethnic cleansing. You can't really say "You, and all you other queers, and your jewish and black friends, and the disabled and retarded, must be killed and burned to purify the gene pool" in a polite way. This is why I hate respectability politics. It takes attention away from the actual message, the agenda, the goal, and focuses it on "these people are bad because one of them broke a window, but look at this dapper and soft-spoken Nazi gentleman".
The reason I'm not reporting them to the proper authorities, is, well, the proper authorities don't give a frell. Surely you understand the distinction between what is legal and what is ethical.
All Nazis want me dead. They want my Jewish stepfather dead. They want most of the people in my row house dead.
The antifas are not just as bad as the brownshirts. The brownshirts did not rise to infamy by punching people or shouting over protests. They rose to infamy by setting up the systemic extermination of whole swaths of the human race.
The year of lead is not applicable here. That was two political factions vying for control of the state. Antifas don't want to take positions of authority, they aren't trying to gain political clout, they are just actively denying a platform to Nazis.
I have no moral obligation to be polite and respectful to somebody who intends to kill me and most of the people I care about.
This isn't a "difference of political opinion". This is a hard-line stance on life-or-death matters that affects me and people like me in a very real way. This is self-proclaimed terrorists, except they never get called terrorists because they have the support of the status quo and the power of institutional bigotry behind them.
Richard Spencer is now scared to make public appearances. That means he can recruit fewer Nazis and he doesn't look like a great Strong Man and he isn't going to get lots of abusers flocking to him in hopes of gaining power without accountability.
I call that a positive result.