Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Advocating mass violence is violence. Supporting one who advocates mass violence is violence. Producing content used by those who support those who advocate mass violence is violence. Meeting violence w violence is self-defense. The exits are locked & the magic show will continue

This is how you get to the point where men in masks beat unarmed journalists "in self-defense." This is how you get to the point where vigilantes collectively determine which speech calls for public beatings and puzzlingly enact them under the banner of *anti*-fascism.

Obviously, there are serious costs to society when people are routinely dragged out and beaten for saying the wrong things. But there are equally serious, much less visible costs to society when people are *rarely* dragged out and beaten because they have learned to whisper.

I think the delusion is that we can go on and skip ahead to the Glorious Future if everyone knows what not to say — and, necessarily, what might happen to them otherwise. The opposition does not need to *be* dead, but it better play dead convincingly. Again: "anti-"fascism.