sc94597 said:
False equivalency. Not using violence against activity does not mean you are fine with it. I am anti-fascist, obviously. As are most people in the world today. But I don't think ends justify means. I am principled in my belief in the equal application of liberty, and that includes for people with views I don't like. Otherwise, I am giving the nazis and fascists precedent to do the same to me. As I said before, most of the people antifa protest and label as fascists or nazis are not fascists or nazis. |
That's a huge problem, though. They don't need precedent. They're ideology is inherently violent, so they view their violent tactics as just, much in the same way that I see a violent revolution as just if it leads to a socialist society where people's needs are met and where cooperation replaces competition as the main economic goal. Ideally, violence wouldn't be needed: social ostracization would be the ideal solution. However, I highly doubt that they're going to promote something like peaceful genocide or peacful ethnic cleansing or even "peaceful authortarianism", and I don't trust them to give me freedom of speech, because they view socialist, anarchist and communist views as a threat to them.
