incredifishface:

knightofbalance-13:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

DIRECT ACTION GETS RESULTS

Okay because you people don’t understand the concept of ‘civility’: Let me explain the concept of self preservation to you.

If it’s okay to use violence to stop Nazies.

And people will just call anyone they don’t like a Nazi.

What’s gonna happen when your political opponents call YOU a Nazi?

that’s a false… @philosopherking1887 help me out here.

People call anyone they don’t like nazis. That doesn’t make them nazis. That doesn’t make these people go around preaching silencing political opponents by any means and the extermination inferior races. Or, you know, make camps to imprison children immigrants separated from their parents and this kind of thing.

So basically nazis call people who punch nazis a nazi too. But that still doesn’t make them nazis, and the rest of the world can tell the difference between those who can co-exist with different world views and cultures and races, and those who stand for the supremacy of the white race and “western culture” (let me fucking die laughing.) The world has attempted to appease and tolerate nazis and include them in the political debate on previous occasions, hoping they would play by democratic rules. The result of that was World War 2. 

There is always a terrifying minority of pro-violent supremacists and racists in the Western world. the only way to keep them from taking over apathetic countries is to keep them scared of parading their beliefs, scared of prison, and if the system is not doing its job, scared of a society who is not afraid of them and will punch them in the face. 

the paradox of tolerance. In a democracy, you must tolerate dissenting views so long as they play by the rules, and obey them in fairness. Violent supremacists movements like the fucking nazis that don’t believe in democracy is the one thing democracy cannot tolerate, but must act forcefully against, or it will be destroyed.

Call me a nazi if you like. It’s fine. I’m on the side of the people that think. They can tell the difference.

I think the expression you’re looking for is “false equivalence.”

The Twitter post is encouraging people to punch, yell at, and ostracize actual Nazis and fascists. The reblog comment leans on the inescapable fact that, in order for anyone to follow the instruction, they first have to identify some people as Nazis/fascists. That’s why they point out that people, infamously, have trouble accurately applying these terms, and have a tendency to throw them around indiscriminately at any political opponent.

Of course, the fact that people will call anyone they disagree with a Nazi/fascist doesn’t mean that they actually believe their opponents are Nazis/fascists. But even if they do… the fact that people are bad at accurately applying a concept doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t attempt to make any claims using it, especially when it is a perfectly adequate concept for classifying and describing certain objects. Some people really are accurately described as fascists; Richard Spencer and the xenophobic goons in the Trump administration are among them. These people really should be ostracized and/or punched.

Though if there really is that much of a problem interpreting the terms “Nazi” and “fascist,” the terms “white supremacist,” “ethnonationalist,” or “people who put children in cages because of their race or nationality” will do just as well.