“I did not come down from the gotdamn Smoky mountains, cross five thousand mile of water, fight my way through half of Sicily, and jump out of a fuckin aeroplane to teach the Nazi lessons in humanity. Nazi ain’t got no humanity. They are the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin mass murderin maniac and they need to be destroyed. That’s why any and every sumbitch we find wearing the Nazi uniform, they’re gonna die.”
I'm gonna be the guy to say why I don't like this.
Anytime I see someone apply dehumanizing language to a group of people -- no matter how vile -- I immediately wonder if this person is motivated by a desire to protect anything or if they are just excited to have found an outlet that allows them to indulge violent desires without jeopardizing their social standing.
This is precisely the type of message and messenger the FBI uses to infiltrate and entrap antifacists. OP, I think it's very unlikely that you're an undercover FBI informant, but you should read up about Micky Windecker, because you're wearing the uniform of an FBI informant and their targets.
Dehumanizing people for their objectively evil anddangerous, consciously chosen, and often acted upon beliefs is not comparable to dehumanizing people for their inherent, involuntary attributes.
If an ideology revolves around harming or oppressing innocent people, its followers are a threat to society and is undeserving of sympathy, compassion, or a place among us, and should be treated accordingly. People who actually act on those beliefs are even worse, and are deserving of permanent removal from society.
Democracy and human rights were only ever possible through violent struggle against authoritarian ideologies, and can only be maintained through the same. To advocate tolerance of those ideologies is to advocate the fall of civilized society.
I don't care if someone carrying a black lives matter flag tells me they support the use of violence against fascists. That's fine.
It's when someone shows up and says that harm is the priority. I have no indication from this photo what OP stands for. And so I can't help but wonder. Did he show up because he opposes Nazis? Or because he was looking for someone to hurt, and discovered that they were a permitted target? If so, I don't really care what he does to Nazis, but I can't trust that person to advance justice at all. Does that make sense?
Also, again: OP should be careful. If someone like that comes up to you and starts asking if you want to go put your money where your mouth is... they could be setting you up.
I'm just going to direct you to look at my other responses. The TLDR is that I never said that Nazi lives matter (they don't), I said OP is giving off some signs not to let this person into your trust circle too quickly.
I used to roll with people like that and no, they are not bloodthirsty savages the way he's trying to stereotype anyone who doesn't agree with him. They're actually very patient, methodical people because they have to be. The stereotype is absurd and falls flat on its face with even a second's worth of thought applied to it.
And that's the point -- his stereotyping is not a rational argument or a good point, it's meant to remind people of propaganda on the issue they were exposed to all their lives, to trigger an emotional reaction in others, to shut down our critical thinking to lessen the likelihood we'll reject his insane demands.
It's all just fascist propaganda. That's all it's ever been.
I saw you at the festival standing in front of the WBC wannabes, but the flag was not blowing so we didn't see the DON'T. the guy i was with was about to yell at you (for what little good that would do, in reality), but the wind blew and we saw the DON'T.