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> Political violence against fascists has only become morally questionable as fascism has become normalized. As fascism has become normalized, or as the term h
by AnimalMuppet 1y ago
> Political violence against fascists has only become morally questionable as fascism has become normalized.
As fascism has become normalized, or as the term has?
If you're going to label expedited restaurant registration as "fascism", then violence against fascism had better not be normalized.
- krapp 1y ago>As fascism has become normalized, or as the term has? Fascism. The normalization of the term has followed the normalization of the politics. >If you're going to label expedited restaurant registration as "fascism" I haven't done anything of the sort.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoYou haven't done anything of the sort. Others have, as quoted in the article. If that's going to be labeled as fascism, then violence against fascism had better not be normalized, because for at least some people, everything they don't like is now labeled "fascism".
- krapp 1y agoOne person in the instance of the article called something fascism, and there was no violence. A slippery slope argument isn't effective if no one is actually slipping down the slope. Meanwhile the right has no problem calling for violence against "the left" or "socialists" or "communists" in the broadest terms possible - so broad they encompass every Democrat by default - and committing it far more often than bloviating progressives on social media. Because a lot of them are actually fascists. And violence against fascists has been normalized since the 1940s. We didn't defeat the Nazis with vigorous debate on the merits of the Jewish Question, we defeated them with bullets. Superman punched Nazis in the face. When the fascists stop being fascist we'll stop punching them in the face. That's the deal.