I've debated tweeting about punching Nazis. It's a distraction from what's actually at stake: NAZIS MOWING OVER PEOPLE IN PUBLIC IRL.
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Time and again, white folks asking the punching Nazis question essentially assume poc don't exist. We don't work into their imagination.
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I can't and I won't speak for all poc. But you might want to assume how some of us would respond to someone calling us slurs to our face.
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If you're a white person concern trolling about punching Nazis you should start to assume some poc will knock a Nazi tf out. It happens.
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You should also put a really hard stop to upholding Ghandi as your punching Nazis guide. He was an anti-black man who not all of us respect.
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Stay with me. It's about to get better for those of you who don't know recent history and haven't bothered to learn. Let's go back 20 years.
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There was a KKK rally in Ann Arbor 20 years ago. There's a resulting logo from that rally -- it's a Nazi being kicked in the face.pic.twitter.com/JevJBvuLP7
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GOOD NIGHT WHITE PRIDE remains a rallying call for anti-fascists. But who are the people in the image? One's a Nazi; the other a black man.pic.twitter.com/ByUgglP2N7
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The man seen kicking the Nazi is Harlon Jones. He was a teen at this time. Here's an interview with him:https://itsgoingdown.org/good-night-white-pride-interview-harlon-jones/ …
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Jones's take on Ann Arbor/his role 20 years later: "The goal was to have the KKK never come back to Ann Arbor again. And we achieved that."
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Funny how not one white person concern trolling about punching Nazis ever took the time to educate themselves about Harlon Jones.
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Jones doesn't speak for every poc either. But if you're going spend time thinking about punching Nazis, then you should know about him.
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Rather fixate on bourgeois abstractions and "civil discourse" most have never enjoyed.
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It's a proxy conversation for a more expansive one about white supremacy and US empire. Rather than recognize that violence, liberals would
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