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Once upon a time in Germany there was a special night, it was called "Crystal Night"[1]. It got it's name because of all the glass from the smashed windows lyin
by nec4b 6y ago
Once upon a time in Germany there was a special night, it was called "Crystal Night"[1]. It got it's name because of all the glass from the smashed windows lying on the ground. There were some people arguing that it was violence, but some said that those people were either idiotic or arguing in bad faith.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
- kemayo 6y agoI'd have gone with the hundreds of Jews murdered that night and subsequent tens of thousands sent to concentration camps in the aftermath as the important violence there, honestly.
- cycrutchfield 6y agoNo, but think of the property that was destroyed!
- nec4b 6y agoYou are right, some people just fail to see that the broken windows were just the beginning and what followed was even more vile. The mental gymnastics some people do to downplay violence only because it might look bad for their side is astonishing. The value of a human life for them is nothing more than a sacrificial pawn on their ideological chessboard.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoKristallnacht was a pogrom in which people specifically targeted Jews with the full backing of the state. Surely the more apt analogy is the systemic violence our state inflicts on Black people, rather than the protests that arose in response to it.
- nec4b 6y agoNo, mask wearing people (supported by a large part of the political elite) destroying property of a specific social-economic class is the more apt analogy today in the USA.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoThose people were met with state violence, so no it’s not.
- jbboehr 6y agoEver heard the term "anarcho-tyranny" ?