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Neo-Nazis march in Nashville, leave after being challenged
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Man you know.... Thats the thing... I support their right to march and voice their opinion. Is it a shit opinion? Yes. Does middle Tennessee have a Nazi problem? Yes.
But I don't want the government to stop them from marching. Because if they can't march... Then the groups I support and agree with can't either.
It sucks. But it's how it should be. :/
the American government and many more literally went to war with the nazis once, it's okay. It's okay to say "the Nazis must not have a voice", and giving the nazis a voice, and a platform, is not how it should be.
if you don't stop it now, it will get worse.
I don't think people recognize how much and how strong of an opposition is required to stop the problem in that way. Pre-WW2 germans didn't just sit on their asses while nazis took over. They fought against it at every stage they could. They fought with politics, demonstrations, strikes and violence. But they lost.
I think our current weakness is that for several decades, ridiculing nazis was the absolutely correct way to fight against them. It worked. They had no leverage beyond comedy. It seems that somehow that doesn't work anymore.
Lol no they didn't, the common german wholeheartedly embraced nazi ideology early on as their national identity was damaged and their economy brittle af.
SOUND FAMILIAR?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
It's the slippery slope problem. I agree in general with everything you said, but struggle with figuring out a way to define that problem that isn't open to abuse by determined bad actors. Imagine for instance that we already had such a law on the books when Trump was in office and consider what he might have been able to do with it.
It really isn't. many countries have dealt with this. Consider Germany's outright outlawing of Nazi symbolism and rhetoric entirely.
the slippery slope, if anything, is allowing the Nazis to be open and free Nazis inside your own country.
You are promoting a slippery slope fallacy.
Punishing murderers is not a slippery slope to punishing someone for saying mean words.
Denying nazis the right to March when their entire ideology is based on racial superiority and hatred is not a slippery slope to denying marches for positive things like equality. Hell, there is already a history of positive protests being squashed, so why would we ever waste out breath defending nazis when instead we should promote the ability for positive messages and focus on only denying it when the message is actually harmful.
I'm not promoting anything, I'm just bringing up the very real threat that the GOP represent when provided with anything even vaguely related to restrictions on rights. I'm not saying we can't or shouldn't ban Nazis, in fact I very explicitly said I agreed with that, I'm just saying it's not a simple problem. Any such law would need to be very carefully crafted to make absolutely certain it couldn't be twisted into a weapon to target a group other than Nazis.
Laws can be pretty specific. Consider, if you will, a law against Nazis. It can't really be abused in any way because it's only targeting Nazis. It's the same reason why murder is illegal but handshakes aren't.
The abuse is really simple, they just redefine Nazi to mean something else. Suddenly they're arresting BLM protesters because they've declared BLM to be a Nazi organization. I've already had literal arguments with people claiming that BLM are Nazi supporters, as mind bogglingly stupid as that sounds.
It's probably not impossible to craft the law in such a way that it isn't able to be weaponized, but the trick would also be in leaving it flexible enough that it isn't easily bypassed. A German style ban on Nazi imagery would probably be a good start but as we've seen in Germany that doesn't actually stop the ideology, it just removes the "brand" which isn't nothing, but falls a little short of the goal.
We should be enforcing current restrictions on "fighting words", which are insults that incite violence. Right now calling someone a racial slur is protected speech, or at least not illegal. Even if the point of that speech is to incite violence, courts have not interpreted that as the fault of the speaker.
This is the original idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words
Here's a more modern revision:
Like what?
It's an interesting idea. I think I'd be fine if they just redefined fighting words as slurs. It seems like slurs would pretty easily meet the definition of fighting words without bringing in some of the more problematic cases like calling police fascists.
That's where the specificity comes in. Like you said, the imagery bans etc. I'm not sure the ideology will be easy to get rid of but we can at least implement some common sense laws to help curb it. In Australia we had some nazi rallies and we made it illegal to do the nazi salute or display nazi symbols. We're a bit backward and racist most of the time, but I'm glad we draw the line at literal nazis.
Reverse the order and the same can be said. Free speech has been abused to allow bad actors to rally for the death of people they don't approve of. By your own logic, this is enough reason to support the issue.
How else you supposed to know who needs a punching?
Haha that's exactly right.
Everyone deserves a voice unless their message is one of hatred and in support of violent oppression. That is the line, and nazis are on the wrong side of the line.
Many people have said the same, and many people have died. Please take the words of this comment section into your mind and give it a second thought. Nazis can't share the same privilege to "speak freely" when they only conduct hate speech to rally others to harm people. That's regulated in a million ways; basically obscenity laws only exist because we don't want Nazis to.
On the other hand, if you see someone punch a nazi, no you didn't. That nazi fell.
See nothing, say nothing!!
We can just, as a society, say fuck nazis, and not tolerate them.
Agreed. I'd very much like for them to be gone.
If you value freedom of expression, that doesn't mean you need to extend that to people who fundamentally oppose it. To maximize freedom of expression, you can't tolerate the people who would outright destroy it.
It's also a slippery slope argument. We can just crack down on Nazis. And as for the government cracking down on other groups... they already do that. We see crackdowns on plenty of other demonstrations, with more repression and violence. Tolerating Nazis isn't helping the good guys, because people in power don't care about applying the rules evenly. Besides, even if we took the slippery slope seriously, then we have to consider what happens when we just let literal Nazis go about their business.
Slippery slope argument is not a real counter argument. You support positive change and resist negative change on a case by case basis. If you want to argue about balance of power between branches of government that is fine but it's separate from the conservative slippery slope means we can't have nice thing argument.
No.
Fuck nazis
This isn't a 'matter of opinion'.
There is NO middle ground between genocide and peace. And their ideals ALWAYS lead to that.
The only good nazi is a dead nazi, the fact our country gives them freedom to speak proves how far we have slipped down the fascist ramp.