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> D-Day was necessary because Nazi storm troopers in the early 1930s weren’t opposed enough. And Stalin's Great Terror of 1936-37 occurred because Communists w

by _zagj 2y ago

> D-Day was necessary because Nazi storm troopers in the early 1930s weren’t opposed enough. And Stalin's Great Terror of 1936-37 occurred because Communists weren't opposed enough. Yet conservatives don't go around calling for "Communists" (let alone as broadly constituted as the left casts their opponents as "nazis") to be assaulted, because they understand speech != violence. > Pedophiles generally aren’t advocating It's not hard to find pedophiles trying to rebrand themselves (e.g., "MAPS") and trying to advocate for decriminalization or reform. > The ones on the registry have already been caught and punished, too. We have no such public registry of Nazis. Probably because they haven't broken any laws--you know, the things a civilized society is supposed to use to punish its transgressors.

ceejayoz 2y ago
> Yet conservatives don't go around calling for "Communists" (let alone as broadly constituted as the left casts their opponents as "nazis") to be assaulted, because they understand speech != violence. This is a very hard assertion to support. A current Republican Congresswoman called for Nancy Pelosi's execution; https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-gree.... The former and future Republican president called for demonstrators to be shot, hecklers at his rallies to be beaten up, said "Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!" when Montana's governor assaulted a reporter... A decent chunk of conservatives assaulted Congress when they didn't like the election results, and a lot more supported the action. > It's not hard to find pedophiles trying to rebrand themselves (e.g., "MAPS") and trying to advocate for decriminalization or reform. And if they make any significant inroads politically I'll happily add them to the punching list.

by _zagj 2y ago

ceejayoz 2y ago

> Yet conservatives don't go around calling for "Communists" (let alone as broadly constituted as the left casts their opponents as "nazis") to be assaulted, because they understand speech != violence. This is a very hard assertion to support. A current Republican Congresswoman called for Nancy Pelosi's execution; https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-gree.... The former and future Republican president called for demonstrators to be shot, hecklers at his rallies to be beaten up, said "Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!" when Montana's governor assaulted a reporter... A decent chunk of conservatives assaulted Congress when they didn't like the election results, and a lot more supported the action. > It's not hard to find pedophiles trying to rebrand themselves (e.g., "MAPS") and trying to advocate for decriminalization or reform. And if they make any significant inroads politically I'll happily add them to the punching list.