RE: An unhinged mob
October 22, 2018 at 2:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2018 at 2:46 pm by Amarok.)
(October 22, 2018 at 2:31 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote:To answer your questions(October 22, 2018 at 1:56 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: My point is by example
Let's say the proud boys are going to hold a hate rally and preach violence against minorities and make a ruckus .I'm saying we have the right to disrupt it and beat the snot out of them because there a bunch of bigot thugs . Technically were starting the physical violence even though their preaching threatening and condoning violence and lastly i'm saying you can no more reason with their kind then you can a fanatical cult thus violence is justified
You have a right to peacefully counter-protest the Proud Boys. You have a right to allow them to make complete asses of themselves for the whole world to see. You have a right to defend yourself if attacked by them, or by anyone else.
You also have a right to legal representation and a fair trial after you've been arrested for attacking them, if that's your choice.
A few questions:
1) Given the victim narrative the right is peddling (complete with violent left-wing "mobs"), why would you take actions that lend credibility to their claims? Even if it's true, as you say, that "their kind" can't be reasoned with, isn't there a larger PR struggle that demands discipline on the part of those who oppose the Proud Boys and similar groups? Isn't it possible to uphold First Amendment rights and speak out forcefully against anti-democratic elements without resorting to the very thing you seem to oppose?
2) Would you be willing to pay the price (fines, jail time, civil suits) for your act of violence, or would you seriously try to argue in court that your actions were legally justified? And if justified, on what would you base your claim?
A. I don't much care for their victim hood as they are not victims
B.Optics is secondary to be as anyone who thinks the Proud Boys are just a bunch of nice guys is ignorant
C. their is difference between the end goal .Were not resorting as our reasons for doing it are totally different
2.Of course you should be fined or go to jail . You broke the law even if it was for a just cause i'm not advocating lawlessness
(October 22, 2018 at 2:39 pm)LastPoet Wrote:I would use violence against those advocating policies that would see certain groups mistreated . Like the forcible removal of non whites from a area as The proud boys have advocated or when they tried to intimidate a Gay village into shouting down in Montreal by rallying there .(October 22, 2018 at 1:56 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: My point is by example
Let's say the proud boys are going to hold a hate rally and preach violence against minorities and make a ruckus .I'm saying we have the right to disrupt it and beat the snot out of them because there a bunch of bigot thugs . Technically were starting the physical violence even though their preaching threatening and condoning violence and lastly i'm saying you can no more reason with their kind then you can a fanatical cult thus violence is justified
So, you would enact violence when only words are thrown to you?
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