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These are literally young UVA students age 17-23 standing up to a sea of white supremacists and neo-Nazis surrounding them #Charlottesville

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apparently it was an arranged white supremacist rally, and then the students pepper sprayed them? I hate nazis, but freedom of speech dudes

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Because emboldened Nazis never hurt anybody

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that's the shittiest argument i've ever heard. "People who believed what you believe have caused harm, so that justifies us hurting you"

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Just to be clear, we're talking about the ppl who knowingly adopted an ideology that resulted in tens of millions of deaths in last 100 yrs?

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Yes, those. I don't advocate physical aggression ever, unless it's in self defense, no matter how abhorrent the ideology

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K, but you're talking abt them as though they unfairly got lumped in w/violent bigots, when that's the *defining* feature of their ideology

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Defining or not, i don't advocate physical aggression for reasons besides self defense, regardless of the aggressiveness of an ideology.

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That's fine, I was responding to your guilt by association argument to point out that's not what was happening.

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what was my guilt by association argument?

5:29 PM · Aug 12, 2017

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You summarized his position as "People who believed what you believe have caused harm, so that justifies us hurting you"

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I reread and think i misunderstood - i thought he was arguing that it was justified to pepper spray cause nazis have hurt in the past

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