On Punching Nazis and other hyperbole

[mneme]

I'm willing to sing about punching Nazis, but I'm not willing to seriously advocate that doing so (or censoring them) is ethically and morally right.

Ken White (Popehat) has an excellent post as to why not. (oddly enough, -do- read the comments here).

Comments

Re: On the punching of Nazis

[mneme]

From what? Nazis saying hateful stuff?

I mean, there is a time for Nazi punching--even though in general, speech is more powerful than deeds (because speech inspires people to help you with your deeds). And damn, it's satisfying. But yeah a culture where we punch people in the face because they say hateful stuff is a culture where marginalized people get punched.

And while -most- people I've seen expressing an appreciation for Nazi-punching are of the "oh, but it should still be illegal" variety, not all are.

Re: On the punching of Nazis

[avram]

We're already in a culture where marginalized people get punched. Remember the guy who got sucker-punched at a Trump rally? He (the victim) had to quit his job because of the publicity, and now delivers pizzas. The guy who punched him got a suspended 30-day jail sentence and a year on unsupervised probation. Wanna guess their respective skin tones?