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In reply to the discussion: Doxxing Nazis: People in Charlottesville and surrounding areas should [View all]ancianita
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None of us know what they would do until they attempt in earnest to do it. They haven't. You can't act on what you only imagine or call them. They are what they do.
Furthermore, big guns don't necessarily hold fear, intimidation and ignorance at bay when big guns are just bigger shows of fear, intimidation and ignorance, all in all.
When democratic societies came along, the imperative to Live With Difference restrained the more civilized against condemning these shows to death, but letting them vent. Thus, the amendment right to assembly, even if they don't merit legal redress. They are reacting to different circumstances. And do you really know what those are.
No one's trying to "reason" with them, but because this country is America and not Germany, we're called to understand their general life context in a way that Germans weren't.
You can call them a disease, but they are only what they answer to. You can want them to die early, but you can't set them up to.
I hear you. You hate them. Wallowing in hate makes you and them, however you come by those aggressive feelings, cancel each other out.
Even in this democracy, we still have to learn what real freedom means. It means to live. with. difference. Even if it's someone's hate.