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It is a problem, but not the way you are exaggerating it to be. You act as if there is a nazi army ready to march on the nation, but that's not happening. We do
by aaron-lebo 9y ago
It is a problem, but not the way you are exaggerating it to be. You act as if there is a nazi army ready to march on the nation, but that's not happening. We do have pockets of bigots and racists and god knows what else, but they don't have huge bases of support unless we act like they do. Nazis want to feel important, they want people to get riled up and fight them. That's what the actual nazis did.
ordinary Nazi running around and slapping PoC
There are a lot of bigots and racists doing thaT, but unless we're being really loose with the term nazi, we don't actually have that many nazis running around.
Their worst acts were in the mid 1990s (OKC). Hell, in 1999 in Jasper, some racists lynched a man. 1999! Those people have always been around, they always will be around. There's always going to be some number of incidents. That does not mean they have real power nor should people act like they do.
This is a decent read:
https://www.npr.org/2017/06/16/533255619/fact-check-is-left-wing-violence-rising https://www.npr.org/2017/06/16/533255619/fact-check-is-left-...
- UncleEntity 9y agoBasically, from what I can tell, nazi is anyone with an opposing viewpoint. I would also posit the majority of recent political violence is from the Antifa folks who believe they can shutdown their opponents through pure and simple violence. In fact there was one act of violence attributed to all the "tea party" protests during the Obama era and that was instigated by an anti-tea party person. For two generations political protests were virtually 100% violence-free until the current crop of kids took to the streets with their anti- trump activities. Makes me sad really...
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- RandomTisk 9y agoThere is a sort of folly that makes one overestimate the value they place on something. Imagine a knight who wants to be brave and courageous, whose pursuit of valor takes him to a place where he heard many evil creatures are gathered. So he goes into a starving mongrel's den and attempts to slay the wild beasts. He kills one, strikes another, and the rest get away. He drags the dead one back to the city square where his minstrels sing his praises. He killed one wild animal, that may or may not have hurt anyone, and achieves a great deal of valor, all at very little risk to himself in his shiny armor. Meanwhile the next town over is being raped and pillaged by bears, lions, pirates and wildfires.
- SolaceQuantum 9y ago> For two generations political protests were virtually 100% violence-free Two generations? So 60 years? Political protests were virtually 100% violence free? [1][2][3] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention#Protests_and_police_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Conve...
- UncleEntity 9y agoWell, two of those weren't political and one was literally two generations ago...
- SolaceQuantum 9y agoThe second was definitely political, as he was one of the main organizers of the black panther party. The third occurred less than 60 years ago, or less than two generations.
- UncleEntity 9y agoWell, my mom was in high school in '68 and I'm old enough to be the father of the kids rioting in the streets so we can call that two generations methinks.