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Calling people names is a cheap shot at attempting to discredit them.

by givemeethekeys 5y ago

mig39 5y ago
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- _-david-_ 5y ago
  A small number of people should not distract from the meaning of the protests. A few people did similar things during the BLM riots, do you think everyone involved with BLM is a Nazi or do you hold double standards?
- mythrwy 5y ago
  It's awfully handy for governments if all it takes to completely discredit a protest is one swastika flag.
- BitwiseFool 5y ago
  >"But yeah, the last thing you should do to someone with a swastika flag is call them a Nazi. It's a cheap shot." What you're actually doing is taking the evidence that unidentified individuals with a Nazi flag showed up at a demonstration involving thousands of people and ascribing that as representative of the entire movement. That's the cheap shot. There is no way for any protest movement to prevent some dudes from showing up with Nazi flags and getting their picture taken at it.
  - GauntletWizard 5y ago
    I once saw a LaRouche protest describe the same way. The LaRouchies are crazy, but they're not Nazis - What they'd done was Photoshop a picture of Obama with a picture of Hitler.
    - GauntletWizard 5y ago
      Ah, found it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/12/healthcare-town-halls-obama https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/12/healthcare-tow...
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- SuoDuanDao 5y ago
  The people against this protest are literally for a closely aligned group of state and business interests to override private citizens' bodily and medical autonomy. It's hard to imagine something more fascist than the people against this protest. I'm not even saying that to express support for the protestors, Fascism is a seductive ideology for a reason and it's currently exactly as popular as everyone thinks, it's just not confined to the 'other side'. It's getting increasingly absurd when someone labels people who, if they're doing anything wrong, are arguing for too many individual rights as fascists. People need to just accept that they're on the fascist side of the argument and proceed from there, acknowledging what their ideology does when it goes too far.

Calling people names is a cheap shot at attempting to discredit them.

mig39 5y ago

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_-david-_ 5y ago
A small number of people should not distract from the meaning of the protests. A few people did similar things during the BLM riots, do you think everyone involved with BLM is a Nazi or do you hold double standards?
mythrwy 5y ago
It's awfully handy for governments if all it takes to completely discredit a protest is one swastika flag.
BitwiseFool 5y ago
>"But yeah, the last thing you should do to someone with a swastika flag is call them a Nazi. It's a cheap shot." What you're actually doing is taking the evidence that unidentified individuals with a Nazi flag showed up at a demonstration involving thousands of people and ascribing that as representative of the entire movement. That's the cheap shot. There is no way for any protest movement to prevent some dudes from showing up with Nazi flags and getting their picture taken at it.
- GauntletWizard 5y ago
  I once saw a LaRouche protest describe the same way. The LaRouchies are crazy, but they're not Nazis - What they'd done was Photoshop a picture of Obama with a picture of Hitler.
  - GauntletWizard 5y ago
    Ah, found it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/12/healthcare-town-halls-obama https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/12/healthcare-tow...
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SuoDuanDao 5y ago
The people against this protest are literally for a closely aligned group of state and business interests to override private citizens' bodily and medical autonomy. It's hard to imagine something more fascist than the people against this protest. I'm not even saying that to express support for the protestors, Fascism is a seductive ideology for a reason and it's currently exactly as popular as everyone thinks, it's just not confined to the 'other side'. It's getting increasingly absurd when someone labels people who, if they're doing anything wrong, are arguing for too many individual rights as fascists. People need to just accept that they're on the fascist side of the argument and proceed from there, acknowledging what their ideology does when it goes too far.