tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post6444900400036088995..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Ken White on Punching NazisJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-16386794880373215542017-01-26T04:35:00.467-05:002017-01-26T04:35:00.467-05:00@John
All the more reason to embrace steps like t...@John<br /><br />All the more reason to embrace steps like the Women's March.<br /><br />Whatever your views on the value of protests vs boring "statecraft", one thing that marches can accomplish that the everyday workings of the bureaucracy can't is to spread messages of love trumping hate.<br /><br />Anyway, it seems clear we're all pretty much on the same page here, more or less. (Except for our resident eugenicist, of course.)G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-1224486049494726072017-01-25T21:27:28.790-05:002017-01-25T21:27:28.790-05:00Until the Republic is actually threatened with arm...Until the Republic is actually threatened with armed takeover, I think violence against dissenters is wrong, period. Plus, I think it often backfires; some movements really are helped by making martyrs.<br /><br />I have been trying hard to bury my anger because I think Trump is the apotheosis of anger; I think right now anger and hate from any corner only feed the dark side and give more power to the Sith Lords.<br /><br />Seriously. Right now I think the biggest danger to the Republic is not bad ideas, even fascist ideas, but anger, hate, and division. Trump rose to power through the cracks created in our society by angry, hate-mongering politics. I think responding to anger with anger, to hate with hate, will only feed the fires that are eating through our state and society. I think we need to cleanse ourselves of anger and hate and be ready to pick up the pieces, peacefully and without rancor, when his regime collapses. If there is a real turn toward fascism, I will be in the streets with the anarchists. Until that happens, I will be preaching peace until I drive everyone crazy.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-75541228244326620472017-01-25T17:35:15.407-05:002017-01-25T17:35:15.407-05:00I have not behaved as I would have wished since th...I have not behaved as I would have wished since this election. I have posted hateful FB things calling Trump voters names. I am SO angry. I feel such rage. But I know calling people names is wrong. It's petty. I felt foolish when called out on it.<br /><br />But I do wonder what the boundaries of "resistance" are, though. Is expressing anger always wrong? What should anger look like?ArEnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13839182981389019243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-76558938156363382922017-01-25T17:28:13.826-05:002017-01-25T17:28:13.826-05:00Am I personally going to go out and punch a nazi? ...Am I personally going to go out and punch a nazi? No, odds are good unless I'm really pressed, I'll stay my hand and speak up instead. And I think the vast majority of us are like this, and that's why nazis aren't getting constantly punched all the time.<br /><br />But am I going to feel remotely bad for watching some less well composed individual beat the snot out of someone who advocates enacting "peaceful ethnic cleansing" in our country? Nope, absolutely not.<br /><br />If your agenda is to destroy the lives of other people, I may not take it upon myself to do you any harm personally, but I'm damn well going to wish you all the ill in the world, and rejoice when the universe sees fit to deliver it upon you. And I see no moral or philosophical conflict in this stance whatsoever.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-66373522561665296472017-01-25T17:10:35.934-05:002017-01-25T17:10:35.934-05:00Yes, but I can accept this sort of measure and fai...Yes, but I can accept this sort of measure and fairness only so long as Nazis remain a pathetic, scorned, tiny minority. I'm pretty happy for powerful Nazis to be fought with any means at one's disposal. And if that makes me just the mirror image of rightists who feel that way about Black Lives Matter or Jews or anyone else, too bad.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08993570411881726772noreply@blogger.com