useragent13What can we do to prevent nazism?
BombOmOmVoting, healthy debate, and standard self-defense practices should cover it.
Voting
I specifically mentioned in my post, besides generic things like voting
hEaLtHy DeBaTe
“If you have 9 men at a table and they welcome 1 Nazi, then there are 10 Nazis at the table”
We have been through all this before. Believing that you can “change hearts and minds” means that you’re willing to sacrifice the rest of us to preserve people who have shown they patently don’t deserve it.
Bigots have agency, they choose to be awful people every single day. You admit that this is the case, because you think you can change their minds (you cannot). Ten people in Buffalo are dead because people like you thought they could change a mind, rather than ensuring a Nazi didn’t do something terrible by whatever means necessary.
The shooter had literally been investigated for having illegal firearms before. People like you thought “he’s just a kid, he’ll change.” And he did. For the worse.
Instead of getting mandated counseling or even thrown in a psyche ward they let him plan a mass shooting and kill ten people who were just trying to go to the grocery store.
standard self-defense practices
The “self defense” style of fascist violence that you hinted at in your comment speaks volumes to your character. Downvoted.
The “self defense” style of fascist violence that you hinted at in your comment speaks volumes to your character. Downvoted.
If you believe standard self-defense practices are fascist violence, all I have to say in response is: call the police if you are in danger, but remember, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Another Republican right wing talking point
intensely_humanAnother fact, repeated by only one side of the aisle because reality itself is politically polarized these days. Much like 1930s Germany.
Here’s an idea for fighting Nazism: read history of the Nazi party.
So what kind of answer do you want? Do you want to grab a gun and go fight the Nazis like they did in the 20th century?
Like why are you here if your plan is to shoot down all answers to your question. How do you think a person can fight against Nazism? If it’s not by choosing not to act like a Nazi, I’m not really sure what else there is.
Healthy debate is the thing we’ve been missing as a society for the past few years. Everyone (hyperbole) just wants their echo chamber and shouts down anyone who disagrees with them.
I completely understand wanting to purge hateful influences from your personal bubble, but things like morally-driven defederation and banning people for “hate speech” when they’re just in the minority opinion is not healthy for the world, and pushes people like that further into their hateful holes. I know first-hand, as that used to be me. It took incredible circumstances for me to see the error of my ways - circumstances most will never experience.
Also, Hateful Holes. Band name. Calling dibs.
Yeah, forcing people with differing opinions into their own echo-chamber simply reinforces their views. Nobody is there to challenge their thought, nobody is there to provide counter-examples and arguments.
I know first-hand, as that used to be me. It took incredible circumstances for me to see the error of my ways - circumstances most will never experience.
I’m glad for it! Hopefully it was nothing too painful. As often very extreme circumstances need to occur to individuals once they are in an echo-chamber to push them out of it.