On punching Nazis

[wildeyed]

108. Oh please!

If the question was "What would MLK do?" then no, he would not punch Nazis. He would also understand if people DID punch Nazis. I can show you the entire quote in you want me to look it up, but it is there. Like I said, his view on violence were far more nuanced than you seem to understand...

Also, non-violence is a tactic used successfully by oppressed people against the powerful. When the powerful use it against the less powerful, it just looks weak. Last I check, we were not oppressed by neo-Nazi, at least not yet. So non-violence is not an effective tactic here.

BUT the discussion is if it is OK to punch Nazis, correct? The MLK thing is just a weird thing you threw in to derail debate.... And I say YES! Punch the bastard in the mouth next time. If someone punched Hitler every time he left the house when he was just starting out, before he came to great power, pretty certain he never would have come to power. He succeeded because people were polite. We call them The Good Germans now, and not in a nice way. In a way that understands how immoral it was of them to sit back and allow a monster to come to power while they sat safe and secure in their little cocoons of middle class respectability because they were either too afraid to call him our or because, in a dirty little corner of their soul, they agreed with him.

So I say YES! Punch the fledgling American neo-Nazi early and often. Yell. Make him feel shame. I give no quarter to racists like that. I also do not underestimate them. Call them out early and often. Call them what they are, white supremacists, hate groups and neo-Nazis, not whatever pretty label they are trying to re-brand with. And punch them when you can so people remember that they are thugs and are ASKING for it.

Do not appease neo-Nazis. Or Putin either, if we are on the topic. They are bullies and only understand strength and power.