Article details how reporter -- pre-armed with relevant facts and cameras -- confronts neoNazis in Tennessee. | Excerpts:
Members of the Goyim Defense League harassed people in the heart of Nashville's entertainment district, berating a lesbian mom who had just left a restaurant.
Later, the neo-Nazis assaulted a bartender who had confronted the group.
"I'm curious: Why Nashville? Why did you guys choose Nashville?" I asked Minadeo.
A fellow GDL member, Nicholas Bysheim, quickly answered.
"It's the only place that respects freedom of speech," Bysheim said.
Minadeo added, "Yeah, this city respects freedom of speech, but communist Jews like yourself don't."
A Californian who moved to Florida, Minadeo leads the hate group as it goes around the country trying to create scenes that they hope will bring them attention and followers.
One of their favorite tropes: Falsely accusing Jews of being pedophiles.
Over and over, it became clear that these are people who are blind to any facts that don't support their hate.
These are really pathetic human beings.
They are the only ones who seem not to know it.
This journalist just gave us a masterclass in everything you shouldn't do when interacting with nazis: appeals to logic, appeals to emotion, bringing up facts and logic, and ultimately platforming them. This is the kind of liberalism that promotes fascism. There is no excuse to give fascists time on TV and to platform them. There is no "debating" fascists. There is only violence.
Imagine being so wrapped up in your hateful bullshit that you are terrifying young children on the street and you still think you are the good guy.
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No, no, grown men making little girls cry is just normal and an essential part of free speech.
The grown men are free to choose to make little girls cry, and little girls are free to choose to cry. What don't you understand tankie?!?!
A great example of why debating Nazis is pointless. Throw a Molotov in the middle of them instead—it's the only language they understand.
What are the nazis going to do to you that you are worried about? Is it better for you to know who is a nazi, or for them to work behind the scenes?
I like how you frame this as if your argument isn't tired as hell. We've all heard the "let sunlight be the disinfectant" garbage.
Fun fact, Nazis won't do shit to me, they'd welcome me with open arms.
That is not what I said, I want to know what danger those people pose to you (or anyone else) that you NEED to use violence against them. What particular danger?
They're literally harassing people in the street in this article. Why are you being obtuse
So then any group harassing people in the streets we should start punching them if we suspect they are part of that group?
You're trying to get a gotcha. These are Nazis in the street openly harassing people. We know where you stand and it's pathetic
You should but let me rephrase it; dont punch people in the street unless they are actually going to threaten you.
I'd rather know. Having spent a large portion of my education in the US southeast, I've been embarrassed in public by people I considered friends until they said something unacceptable. Whether it's "being rude to the help" at a restaurant, getting drunk and harassing someone over race, whatever, I've not hesitated throughout my life to tell prejudiced people to shut the fuck up and find a new ride home or a new set of friends.
It's surprisingly easy to remove yourself from someone you know is denying you a ton of social opportunity. If someone is automatically threatening in your mind because of their race or gender alone, you're weak, you're immature, and you drag down everyone who takes time to validate your bullshit insecurities by talking about it, much less participating in it. Delete your twittter account
I would agree, I want to know so that its not some 4chan in real life thing. Start punching people that allegedly nazis and they will group together stronger and gain sympathy.
So you think that american nazis are going to take over and kill millions of jews?
That's your takeaway from the above image?
Do you agree with gandhi that Jews should lay down their weapons, and offer themselves to nazi knives?
That is my takeaway of what you might believe. I do not agree with ghandi in this situation.
This is great but the interviewer should've asked why the member who tried to meet up with a child was kicked out if it really was a police setup.
EDIT: Saw this was .ml so I'm gonna try to be nicer about it
The issue with neonazi's is not that they misuse and abuse words, history, rhetoric. Though they certainly do.
The solution to neonazi's then is not to correct them on their lexicon or try to catch them in a logical fallcy or a lapsus.
Flippantly, the cure is simple:
Less flippantly, the cure is organized, militant worker movements willing and prepared to resist the reactionary violence that is sure to come as the West steadily loses its hegemonic status in the world. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. And you don't debate a vampire that's got his fangs in your neck. You go get a stake.
Not sure if the boy works here, but... @aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me REAL Americans FIGHT Nazis!
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Another reason why we need a Great Chinese Firewall. We shouldn't let young people read shit from capitalists and bigots
The problem with that remains: who decides what is and isn't allowed? The government? This idea seems great until it falls in the hands of say, a government led by Trump.
The communist party decides what is allowed. If your country isn't communist yet, don't tolerate bourgeois ideas under no circumstances. Bourgeois ideas (racism and homophobia) are obvious when they aim to divide the working class.
The subject is US news. The government isn't communist and there's no indication that it will be any time soon. If there was to be a great firewall of any kind then it's obvious that the government is going to be the one to control it. My point was that that's a problem.
I'm new to lemmy. Am I allowed to suggest killing all of these doods? If not, can I at least put castration on the table?
