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Author Topic:   The Disgusting Berkeley Riots
vimesey
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Message 19 of 275 (798544)
02-03-2017 10:13 AM
Reply to: Message 17 by Faith
02-03-2017 9:34 AM


Re: Riots are bad (but it depends on who's rioting).
Violent attacks intended to silence a political opinion are a "low level" action that shouldn't be compared to the Nazis, cuz why?
Because the defining characteristic of Nazis - the evil that we most associate with them - is the horrifying and systematic murder on an industrial scale of 6 million innocent Jewish/gay/disabled/Romany people. That's Nazism to most people.
Of course they suppressed free speech and did numerous other immoral things, but the reason they have rightly acquired such a universal hatred as recent history's most evil group is the deliberate and systematic genocide of 6m people.
They were the police - the army - the entire apparatus of state - there was no-one to turn to when they came for you to send you off to the gas chambers. The despair and misery they caused is unfathomable
That is what a Nazi is. Every time you equate someone who does something far less wrong, with a Nazi, you normalise that little bit more what the Nazis did.
There is a very genuine debate to be had about what the rioters did, and the extent of free speech. But leave the Nazis out of it - it leaves you and Coyote with a severe credibility issue - and is insulting to the memories of those 6m and the unimaginable horror they suffered.

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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