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I'm guessing most of my followers support randomly punching Nazis. I don't. Let me try to explain why:
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Premise one is that physically attacking your political opponents is inherently illiberal and uncivilized and an absolute last resort.
I realize Nazism is itself the very extreme of illiberality and incivility. But don't confuse attacking an idea with attacking a person.
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You might argue that we need to "make racists afraid again" and that punching Richard Spenser "worked" because now he's afraid to go out.
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So he's afraid. But he's still a Nazi. Racists don't stop being racist because they're afraid. They go underground & encrypt their rhetoric.
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contra, seriously, amongst all the injustices to focus on, why would you expend your energies on a punched nazi?
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because it's what everyone on Twitter is talking about
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there's nothing systematic about this type of violence. it's an amusing event, but not systematically/institutionally deployed
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When idea is the person , then a punch is civil thing to do
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I find the "attacking the idea vs the person" belief questionable, given how closely tied their ideology is to their identity.
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