• Actionschnils@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    I’ll understand your point. And to make it clear, again, fascism needs!! to be stopped. But is not about “should we fight” but more “how should we fight?” Because if you (imho) break some basic rules, you wont be a fighter against facism but just another arsehole, just with good intentions. So: If violence against other people is necessary to fight fascism, why is it needed to humilate the beaten up enemy? Personal needs, like the feeling of revenge, might, superiority? Terrorizing other enemies?

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      18 hours ago

      Just so long as it’s stopped on your terms, though, right?

      I keep listing off the reasons for content like this, and you keep projecting your own perceptions onto how other people are reacting to it. Presenting it as “humiliating the beaten up enemy” is dishonest. “Publicizing that allegiance to fascist ideals isn’t tolerated” is an accurate summary of what’s happening here. Sure there’s an undeniable aspect of dunking on the smug little shithead, seeing him like this fills me with a primal pleasure (and I’m just sad those girls didn’t have a knife), but you’re presenting that the ideal world is one where publicizing the defeat of actual fascists is uniformly unjustifiable. It’s liberal evangelism, with a less painfully cringy name - you just pushing your idea of what the “correct” way to behave is onto everyone else and refusing to acknowledge that everyone else has just as much right to their opinion as you do. That’s why we have to punch fascists, actually! Because if we just accept their right to hold their (monstrous) opinions, those opinions will never die.

      It’s the classic paradox of tolerance (though that whole concept has taken on a tedious life of it’s own with the politically semi-literate…)