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>I confront nazis in the street. Not the internet. Most people I've met who say things like this are actually the violent, authoritarian, illiberal threat to d
by deepdriver 4y ago
>I confront nazis in the street. Not the internet.
Most people I've met who say things like this are actually the violent, authoritarian, illiberal threat to democracy they claim to oppose. They tend to lie a lot, too. Your utter refusal to admit the mistake or intentional falsehood of your first comment informs me as to your motives and intentions.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI understand now that their march was a separate one. My intent was not and is not to refuse to admit error in understanding the full context of a thing, I certainly misunderstood and thought they had in fact marched in Charlottesville. Mea culpa. I stand by the point that nazis and other fascists use this sort of thing to signal their beliefs to each other and to muddy the water about their meaning and intent in so doing. And after another look I still believe that’s what it was, and that it should be called out. As far as “violent, authoritarian, illiberal threat to democracy”, I can’t claim to ever have ‘punched a nazi’ or any such thing, although I hardly consider that action illiberal or any threat to meaningful democracy. I was referring to going to places where they gather and unequivocally vocally opposing them. My point was that I don’t need to conjure imagined nazis on the internet, they’re pretty visible in public meatspace.