The brazen appearance of white supremacist groups in Nashville left the city grappling with how to confront hateful speech without violating First Amendment protections.
  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Let them march. A bigger problem is that a huge number of people seem to think they’re a thing of the past and don’t really exist in any strength. Let them prove otherwise.

    You can’t suppress them into defeat anyway, we’ve tried that before.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’m not suggesting that an aryan-looking guy with a legally purchased assault rifle could take out a marching nazi regiment, but I am suggesting someone else has suggested that at some point. Last name . . Gratton? Matton? I forget.

    • femtech@midwest.social
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      3 months ago

      We didn’t though, we let them fester, just like the Confederates. We should have also, not let them fester.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      We can’t suppress them into defeat!? What?? That’s how the German Nazis were defeated! That’s how modern Nazis have been symbolically defeated, worldwide. “We don’t serve you here.” Any place, anywhere in the world, if an equal number of people stand up against them and for human equality, they run away with their tails between their legs. They’re fucking Nazis…

      • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        There were several laws put in place in postwar Germany that specifically suppressed them. This was broadly effective, though I think the modern-day position of the AfD shows it was not completely so.

        In the US, any such legislation would be struck down in court as unconstitutional.

        So, it’s just not that simple.

        • andyburke@fedia.io
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          3 months ago

          Newsflash: some number of people are absolute shitbags.

          If you let them take over and run the show it’s gonna get real bad.

          Nazis are absolute shitbags. They will always be around in some number. You need to always suppress them so they don’t fuck up the good shit we have managed to eek out.

          • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Well, yes, you definitely don’t want to let them take over. You want to demonstrate your own strength, and how much you outnumber them.

            This is not preventing them from marching in some way, though. That is not doable, it would be illegal. It would also be counterproductive in our current climate of most people underestimating the actual danger.

              • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 months ago

                I’m discussing specifics, details, not vague principles. Should there be Neo Nazis allowed to gather and march through some city with their signs? Yes, they should not be prohibited or physically prevented.

                Why? Because it helps give evidence to the fact that racism in the modern day is still an enduring problem, and that extreme racism is still a threat. This counters a standard conservative narrative that remains an effective weapon in their toolbox.

                Is this tolerance? No, not necessarily, not if you’re also counterprotesting, contesting their position, demonstrating that they do not have factuality or popularity on their side.

                I’m not some young whippersnapper that thinks in simple, straightforward, black and white ways. It’s a messy and complicated world out there, without simple answers to our problems. So, we need to think in complex ways, paying attention to details and specifics instead of thinking some broad application of some sort of simplified principle can fix what a century of progress failed to.

                • andyburke@fedia.io
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                  3 months ago

                  Just to be clear, you are the one advocating for tolerating those promoting intolerance in this situation.

                  You have laid it out very clearly here.

                  That is why you are subject to the paradox. Nothing to do with complicated situations or anything. You are saying people who push an ideology of inequality and intolerance.deserve a voice. I do not agree.

                  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                    3 months ago

                    Depends how you define tolerance I suppose. If your opponent is going to harm themselves, though, you should let them.

                    edit: Consider it this way. Do you think a Nazi march improves their position in the slightest? Does it strengthen Nazi ideas in any way, shape or form?

                    I don’t think it does, personally. People that want to follow that ideology already do, I do not think it would increase their support in any way.

        • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Right, so you start beating the shit out of them until they learn to shut the fuck up and stop showing up. Make them afraid.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        “We don’t serve you here.”

        Yep.

        1. take picture
        2. post picture near register
        3. under sign saying “we prefer not to serve nazis”

        (#3 sounds less harsh than it is in enforcement. #canadian)