RE: Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...
January 25, 2017 at 1:51 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2017 at 1:52 am by Regina.)
(January 23, 2017 at 5:46 am)ukatheist Wrote: Watched the video a coupla times, and the cheers seem to be in reaction to the speech rather than the fight (theres waving in the background some distance away from the incident at the same time), and theres another cheer a little later on, not so unfortunately timed.
Am kinda surprised that the immediate crowd don't take more of an issue with the guy though, not sure what the reporters line of questioning is, but she didn't appear to be intimidating or violent, or in anyway deserving of that kind if violent response.
I've had quite a few posts on fb of some guy being punched in the face in the us 'for being a nazi' by my older brother (I consider myself to be slightly left but my bro is waaaaaay left) and he has nothing but praise. Makes me sad, when did it become ok to be violent towards someone because of the words they say (no matter how despicable or contrary to your own views)?
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Yeah it's not isolated unfortunately, there was another video I saw recently of another woman (not intimidating or harassing anyone at all) getting punched by a dude, whose friend then lied to the police about it. As for the "Nazi gets punched" video, I was told the guy who got punched actually has expressed neo-Nazi views and identifies as one. Makes me care a lot less for him if I'm honest, although I still kind of want to be principled about it and not excuse punching people over speech.
We have really got to a point where some people are justifying violence. Politically I don't even know where I stand anymore to be honest. I've always considered myself Left and still would, but I feel very alienated by this shit and wish more people on the Left would be principled and denounce it, instead of leaving all the criticism to the Right.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie