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Richard Spencer held a rally at UF last week, and they had to arrest 3 of his supporters for firing shots at protesters. I don’t have much sympathy for this “c

Richard Spencer held a rally at UF last week, and they had to arrest 3 of his supporters for firing shots at protesters. I don’t have much sympathy for this “college kids are overreacting” argument these days.

aaron-lebo 9y ago
Spencer and his ilk are just going where they know they'll get attention and reactions. They feed off each other.
anonmoose123 9y ago
It's the "brownshirts vs the redshirts" all over again. Yes, one side are literally waving Nazi flags and that's terrible. The other side are literally waving Socialist flags and the only reason that's not just as terrible if not worse is that for some reason the intellectual left got away with going to ground rather than admitting defeat. And if you think that's hyperbole because of Bush-Jr-era nonsense, I refer you to Christopher Hitchens who used to lead labor strikes and visit glorious people's work camps in South America before he finally realized the horrors of all the socialist regimes he'd been supporting. You're also ignoring the times that went against your mantra, like when the liberal antifa supporter was handing out bike locks and brained a kid on camera. Antifa have also regularly been tossing explosives into crowds, beating people, lighting property and police on fire, etc. It's a wonder more haven't been injured. I don't have any sympathy at all for Nazis. I also don't have any sympathy at all for Socialists. Not having any sympathy for Socialists, doesn't make me a supporter of Nazis. Not having sympathy for either side, doesn't mean I support the other side. I'd like for us to go back to rationality and working together. That starts by reforming education. And yes, education is that bad. One quick example from my own time back at college a few years ago is that I had a professor teaching the university-required ethics course who taught ethics only through the lens of Feminist Care Ethics. If you wrote a paper dealing only with the issues at hand (Locke and Hobbes mostly), you failed. If you wrote a paper attacking white men and denying rationality as a positive basis for morality, you got an A. I just discovered my papers a few days ago, and yes it's all in there. On the other hand, I also had a conservative department chair professor who taught me that white people only started to accept black people after slavery because black people were so good at entertainment and sports... so I'm all for generalized reform, and not just in this one politicized direction.
alexanderstears 9y ago
Only one of his supporters fired shots at the protesters, and many of those protesters are people who support preemptive self defense, shooting at them is valid and defensible by their own logic.
- gtoast 9y ago
  Lol. “I heard some progressives support preemptive self defense so I should be allowed to fire into any crowd of people I think may be progressives”. I hope that is their defense.

aaron-lebo 9y ago

Spencer and his ilk are just going where they know they'll get attention and reactions. They feed off each other.

anonmoose123 9y ago

It's the "brownshirts vs the redshirts" all over again. Yes, one side are literally waving Nazi flags and that's terrible. The other side are literally waving Socialist flags and the only reason that's not just as terrible if not worse is that for some reason the intellectual left got away with going to ground rather than admitting defeat. And if you think that's hyperbole because of Bush-Jr-era nonsense, I refer you to Christopher Hitchens who used to lead labor strikes and visit glorious people's work camps in South America before he finally realized the horrors of all the socialist regimes he'd been supporting. You're also ignoring the times that went against your mantra, like when the liberal antifa supporter was handing out bike locks and brained a kid on camera. Antifa have also regularly been tossing explosives into crowds, beating people, lighting property and police on fire, etc. It's a wonder more haven't been injured. I don't have any sympathy at all for Nazis. I also don't have any sympathy at all for Socialists. Not having any sympathy for Socialists, doesn't make me a supporter of Nazis. Not having sympathy for either side, doesn't mean I support the other side. I'd like for us to go back to rationality and working together. That starts by reforming education. And yes, education is that bad. One quick example from my own time back at college a few years ago is that I had a professor teaching the university-required ethics course who taught ethics only through the lens of Feminist Care Ethics. If you wrote a paper dealing only with the issues at hand (Locke and Hobbes mostly), you failed. If you wrote a paper attacking white men and denying rationality as a positive basis for morality, you got an A. I just discovered my papers a few days ago, and yes it's all in there. On the other hand, I also had a conservative department chair professor who taught me that white people only started to accept black people after slavery because black people were so good at entertainment and sports... so I'm all for generalized reform, and not just in this one politicized direction.

alexanderstears 9y ago

Only one of his supporters fired shots at the protesters, and many of those protesters are people who support preemptive self defense, shooting at them is valid and defensible by their own logic.

gtoast 9y ago
Lol. “I heard some progressives support preemptive self defense so I should be allowed to fire into any crowd of people I think may be progressives”. I hope that is their defense.