Hold on. I get tolerance to Nazis is not something societies should procure, but I personally will take anyone holding a banner, no matter how stupid it is, against anyone holding a weapon against whatever they find stupid.
Of course, if those holding banners start grabbing guns, that’s another thing.
EDIT: to all your rabid replies, understand one thing: I don’t support racist ideas. I do prefer stupid people with banners rather than stupid people with weapons. It’s not that hard to understand.
So how many levels of indirection is okay: (The following are sarcastic statements being made for the purposes of examples)
Banner 1: “I’M GONNA SHOOT A BABY WITH A GUN.”
Banner 2: “I support Banner 1.”
Banner 3: “I support the person holding Banner 1 and their right to make statements of any kind.”
Banner 4: “I don’t like the hyperbole of claiming that anyone is getting threatened.”
Banner 5: “I support Banner 2.”
Banner 6: “Cheese tastes good sometimes.”
Banner 7: “Both banners, including Banner 1 and Banner 6, need to tone down their rhetoric and are just as bad.”
Banner 8: “Banner 2 was attacked just for holding a banner. Free speech doesn’t exist anymore. Hostility is out of control.”
How about gerrymandering your vote away so that it’s ineffective, upending the political system checks and balances, and now they can rule with a minority and never fire a shot?
Still good with that? Just shrug and say they did it within the limits of the system we have, we’re fucked, congrats you gamed the system and won?
So if a group unrolls a banner here saying where you live and the top 5 things that make your life meaningful and how to destroy those things, you would support their right to do that? A Nazi symbol is an endorsement of such tactics and should be treated as such.
Hold on. I get tolerance to Nazis is not something societies should procure, but I personally will take anyone holding a banner, no matter how stupid it is, against anyone holding a weapon against whatever they find stupid.
Of course, if those holding banners start grabbing guns, that’s another thing.
EDIT: to all your rabid replies, understand one thing: I don’t support racist ideas. I do prefer stupid people with banners rather than stupid people with weapons. It’s not that hard to understand.
If you don’t think just holding a sign on a pole is dangerous, go watch some January 6th footage.
Found the Nazi Sympathizer.
So how many levels of indirection is okay: (The following are sarcastic statements being made for the purposes of examples)
Banner 1: “I’M GONNA SHOOT A BABY WITH A GUN.”
Banner 2: “I support Banner 1.”
Banner 3: “I support the person holding Banner 1 and their right to make statements of any kind.”
Banner 4: “I don’t like the hyperbole of claiming that anyone is getting threatened.”
Banner 5: “I support Banner 2.”
Banner 6: “Cheese tastes good sometimes.”
Banner 7: “Both banners, including Banner 1 and Banner 6, need to tone down their rhetoric and are just as bad.”
Banner 8: “Banner 2 was attacked just for holding a banner. Free speech doesn’t exist anymore. Hostility is out of control.”
How about gerrymandering your vote away so that it’s ineffective, upending the political system checks and balances, and now they can rule with a minority and never fire a shot?
Still good with that? Just shrug and say they did it within the limits of the system we have, we’re fucked, congrats you gamed the system and won?
So if a group unrolls a banner here saying where you live and the top 5 things that make your life meaningful and how to destroy those things, you would support their right to do that? A Nazi symbol is an endorsement of such tactics and should be treated as such.
Don’t sympathize with Nazis.