(December 18, 2019 at 12:54 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Just to be clear...some asshole decided to make every other persons morning view shit, and we think that it's somehow untoward to make that assholes view shit?
You can think about swastikas without painting them explicitly for other people to see. Covering your walls and ceiling with nazi bric a brac is kosher - covering the outside of your home with nazi bric a brac is a comically explicit threat to other people. Peoples inalienable right to say (and paint. I suppose) fucked up shit should never come before another persons right to life. This obsession with Freeze Peach that we currently have isn't anything other than a suicide pact.
I know, I know..it's just some paint, and it was his property, it should be illegal to fuck with it (and it is). Won't stop people from doing it...and when we assess their individual motivations and merit for defacing the nazi shit that some other cockmuncher defaced the planet with......when we decide to be "riled up".....are we considering whether there's anything in human experience that might suggest that the propagation of nazi iconography and ideology is a credible threat to the lives of other people?
Any history buffs wanna weigh in on that riddle?
If you condone vandalistic vigilantism as a proper response to Nazi iconography, where does it stop? Does it give the extreme right a pass to vandalize portraits of Obama or Mandela (both of whom were accused - however laughably - or being 'a credible threat to the lives of other people')? Does it allow the snatching of MAGA hats and the destruction of 'Vote Trump' yard signs?
I'm not saying that this man's right to express his racist, Nazi rubbish shouldn't be limited - of course it should. I agree completely that it IS an explicit threat to the lives of other people. But how to address it is a matter for the courts and the police, not for Community Watch types who happen to have access to spray paint.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson