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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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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.
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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You might argue that Nazis are irrational and can't be persuaded. So our only option is to beat and intimidate them into silence.
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This to me sounds like the forsaking of liberal democratic values—do you have so little faith in public rationality, in your own principles?
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Liberal, tolerant society will always have fringes of illiberalism. I'd rather face those fringes head on.
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We can't do that if they're forced into secrecy by violence and intimidation. I'd rather let them spout their ugliness unfiltered.
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That way we can directly expose it for what it is and subject it to public opposition and critique.
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I believe that public critique can work because I believe democracy works.
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If you admit that violence and intimidation are the only way to win, you sound to me like you've given up on democracy.
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Underground nazis are a lot better than popular nazis. Punching nazis communicates that their rethoric is unacceptable.
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who decides what rhetoric is acceptable?
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Someone gets it.
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