Nice Guy

This is also the rationale to people defending Nazis because "it's just their opinions".

No, it is not "just opinions" when you want to terrorise and murder other people simply for having been born. It is not "just opinions" that you want to abolish democracy for a totalitarian police state. It is not "just opinions" that you manifest that you are working towards this society. It is not "just opinions" that you express this in public in order to make other people live in fear for your "opinions" to become reality.

It is violence. And violent aggression is justified to be met with violent defence.

Punch a nazi today, kids. Every day is punch a nazi day.

Edit: Sorry, I went wild and somewhat unrelated. I didn't intend to diminish the topic of womens rights. Every day is of course also a punch a sexist day, regardless their other opinions.

This comic illustrates my internal struggle to get along with my trump bootlicker coworkers.

I have to schmooze a little bit to keep the working relationship running, but I feel disgusted every single day when the little hints of what they stand for peek out.

Rofl the polite misogynist. The worst

Bourgeoisie has depicted fasciscts as vilains, evil and monstruous. Now when people discovered that nazis are just humans, their are surprised. Spoiler: people could act nice, honest, and even involve in charity, and still aim to enslave or mass kill others.

I like this as a thought experiment: Lemmy, at what point does someone stop being nice? And is there a difference between acting or being nice?

The guy excusing it is almost just as problematic. Just because you can act polite doesnt mean youre nice, but espousing these views isnt even polite. Having to pretend to get along with people like this at work is soul draining.

Nah, Raymond's a cunt and I've told a few Raymonds at work that.

I don't have much to do with these types so then I see something like given a wife by the state and im like. WTF!

I know guys who straddle the line, and I give the benefit of the doubt because they are simply confused and don't know better. And then there is the Andrew Tate gang.

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That men should be given a wife by the state

Ok so while I joke about this subtext in the whole thing - if they actually want that, how the fuck do they expect that to work?

Historically the closest thing to "being given a wife" was a dowry, which in my mind is a stupid term made up for a family selling their daughter.

Whenever anyone says someone is nice, I internally translate it as them saying, someone is polite. Still a douche but a polite douche.

I also don't think that men should be given a wife by the state though...

I've said for as long as I can remember, "nice doesn't qualify you to be my friend."

This reminds me a conversation I had with my wife's coworkers, and they were trash talking their boss and one of them (white passing) said that other that being racist, she was always professional and everyone went like wtf. This was in Brazil btw.

I have to admit one of my former coworkers was like that. Not the overt misogyny (that's just objectively disgusting) but anti-vax & trumpist, yet he was a nice guy. Very confusing for me.

The worst kind of person isn't someone who will defend free speech, it's someone who does so at first, and then stops defending it when they're in power.

I think hate speech should have repercussions, but there are lots of thoughts that are hard to explain. A big problem is the upsurge in these types of comics. I think they are not only unhelpful, but detrimental to the cause at hand when pro-Palestine protesters are being labeled "Nazis" and then detained. The problem right now clearly is the state, not the people living under the state, and someone saying a few offensive things, while evil, isn't as bad as the government being turned into a police state before our eyes, who will gladly shut us up for protesting against them. Stop worrying about the Nazis in universities and start worrying about Nazis about to run the U.S. military.

I haven't found a Raymond in Cascadia

For some reason, I immediately assumed they were talking about Eric S. Raymond

Uh, this sexist "cartoonist" again. Let's just hate each other, shall we?