In the last two days I've been called an "amplifier" of "fascism" for: 1) saying that people should not be beaten for their speech 2) saying that antifa is likely contributing to support for authoritarianism I'm not "playing" a "sport." If someone hits me, I did not ask for it.
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I'm not being flippant — the point of sport is that it's organized, that there are rules to which all parties agree. If only one team is playing football, you do not have a game of football. If you drop all that to call this a sport, I don't see why rape or execution can't be
FWIW, I'm not against people fighting for fun. I've known a lot of perfectly fine guys that like to spar. Maybe what's going on in the UK really is as consensual as Geoffrey's interviewee describes it. But that is absolutely not what's going on in e.g. the videos from Portland.
