Right, so you start beating the shit out of them until they learn to shut the fuck up and stop showing up. Make them afraid.
Comment on What Can a City Do When Neo-Nazis Start Marching Down Its Streets?
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months agoThere were several laws put in place in postwar Germany that specifically suppressed them. This was broadly effective, though I think the modern-day position of the AfD shows it was not completely so.
In the US, any such legislation would be struck down in court as unconstitutional.
So, it’s just not that simple.
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 4 months ago
andyburke@fedia.io 4 months ago
Newsflash: some number of people are absolute shitbags.
If you let them take over and run the show it's gonna get real bad.
Nazis are absolute shitbags. They will always be around in some number. You need to always suppress them so they don't fuck up the good shit we have managed to eek out.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
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Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well, yes, you definitely don’t want to let them take over. You want to demonstrate your own strength, and how much you outnumber them.
This is not preventing them from marching in some way, though. That is not doable, it would be illegal. It would also be counterproductive in our current climate of most people underestimating the actual danger.
andyburke@fedia.io 4 months ago
You need to be cautious of the paradox of tolerance.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m discussing specifics, details, not vague principles. Should there be Neo Nazis allowed to gather and march through some city with their signs? Yes, they should not be prohibited or physically prevented.
Why? Because it helps give evidence to the fact that racism in the modern day is still an enduring problem, and that extreme racism is still a threat. This counters a standard conservative narrative that remains an effective weapon in their toolbox.
Is this tolerance? No, not necessarily, not if you’re also counterprotesting, contesting their position, demonstrating that they do not have factuality or popularity on their side.
I’m not some young whippersnapper that thinks in simple, straightforward, black and white ways. It’s a messy and complicated world out there, without simple answers to our problems. So, we need to think in complex ways, paying attention to details and specifics instead of thinking some broad application of some sort of simplified principle can fix what a century of progress failed to.