Comment by croon
9 years ago
Not when they start organizing murder, no.
I must have missed the memo on us hackers. What group of traits in people do we blame for our woes? Just so I know who we want to exterminate.
I know this isn't a place for sarcasm, but when I can't tell if your comparison is sarcastic or not, I have a hard time not responding in kind.
What if I consider infant/child circumcision mutilation? Jews and Muslims do this for religious reasons. Would it be therefore okay for me to bar them from service?
What if I'm an American Christian and think abortion is literally murder? Would it be therefore okay for me to ban customers who identify themselves as Pro-Choice?
Or if I consider the Catholic church a criminal organisation for enabling systematic child abuse? Does that mean I can ban Catholics?
If you say no, what about white supremacists who merely spread the idea that whites are superior but don't encourage violence against other races? If the KKK formally promised to never commit any violent acts again and leave POC alone but continue preaching racial superiority and claiming the US as a white nation?
This is a pretty slippery slope you're arguing.
> What if I consider infant/child circumcision mutilation? Jews and Muslims do this for religious reasons. Would it be therefore okay for me to bar them from service?
Are there muslims and jews that don't circumcise/mutilate their children? Are they still muslims and jews? If you say yes, then it's not a religious tenet, but a cultural tradition.
> What if I'm an American Christian and think abortion is literally murder? Would it be therefore okay for me to ban customers who identify themselves as Pro-Choice?
I was raised Christian and no one in those circles takes issue with the choice of abortion. Seeing as you explicitly wrote "American Christian", it's clear it's trying to make a distinction, which I agree with, that there is an evangelical branch of Christians in America that are radical, and that it's not what Christianity is about.
> Or if I consider the Catholic church a criminal organisation for enabling systematic child abuse? Does that mean I can ban Catholics?
Catholics condemn child abuse, it's not a part of their religion, but I think they should allow priests to marry instead, because forced celibacy is unnatural for humans, and it clearly leads to a disturbingly high rate of abhorrent criminal misconduct.
> If you say no, what about white supremacists who merely spread the idea that whites are superior but don't encourage violence against other races? If the KKK formally promised to never commit any violent acts again and leave POC alone but continue preaching racial superiority and claiming the US as a white nation?
So what you're asking is: If white supremacists don't act on the core principle of their organisation, should they be allowed to practice?
Sure, I don't see the point of them keeping it up at that point, but whatever floats their boat.
>Are there muslims and jews that don't circumcise/mutilate their children? Are they still muslims and jews? If you say yes, the it's not a religious tenet, but a cultural tradition.
There's no difference between the two. You can break any religious tenet and still belong to the particular religion/faith.
Heck, you can murder people and still be considered a christian saint for example.
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> Not when they start organizing murder, no.
I think you are misinformed (I assume you talk about natzis).
Not all natzis are violent or are looking for violence. There are plenty of pre-war natzis that loved how Hitler pulled their country from dispair of economical and technological swamp, created economy of solid growth and created hundreds of thausands of jobs. Up to this point Hitler was an incredible leader and actually all those real successes as a politican made him being voted to become Germans fuerer.
As with any other group or person views, a reasonable person never agrees with anyything they say or believe. Thats called fanatism. Look at Trump. Mamy things he do or say are reasonable and as a POTUS he sould be praised for. On the other hand you shouldnt agree with him when he talks crap.
So its wrong to say all natzis are looking for violence, just like its wrong to say all Muslims are looking to blow thmeselves up in crouded spot.
So your point is some of the Nazis were reasonable other than the ones that want to commit genocide?
It doesn't even hold up today because you are saying historically there were Germans that supported the Nazi party because of Hitler's leadership in other areas. But we're in 2017 where everyone knows that Nazis committed a genocide. So anyone like the Daily Stormer that supports Nazis we know to be dangerous. And It's okay to not do business with dangerous people who want to harm innocents.
To your point about Muslims, we know that there are millions of peaceful non-violent practicing Muslims. You are trying to make a logical equivalency here and what I believe is more important is the facts that we know about the real world we live in. Supporting Nazis is explicit support of genocide. Practicing Islam has an unfortunate overlap with violent terrorists. But practicing Christianity also has an unfortunate overlap with domestic terrorists like Timothy McVeigh and Dylan Roof. I don't think existing in this theoretical world of forced equivalency even benefits your argument as much as you believe it does.
> So anyone like the Daily Stormer that supports Nazis we know to be dangerous.
How is it exactly dangerous? How did they views hurt you or your family? How did they affect you? IF you children happen to be listening and turn to Natzis, I can bet even if DS never existed in the first place, they would get to be Natzis somehow anyways.
Point being, limiting free speech is never a good idea. Especially of something SO silly as a website where it is NOT pushing itself on you, but to the contrary - you have to visit it to be a "part" of it.
> Not all natzis are violent or are looking for violence [...] Up to this point Hitler was an incredible leader
Hitler was openly advocating persecution of Jews and annexing countries through war. Supporting Hitler at the time, even without hindsight, was to be in active support of violence to say the least.
Normally you don't need to point out the link between Nazism and violence, but these don't seem to be normal times.
>Hitler was openly advocating persecution of Jews and annexing countries through war.
The US (and France and co) were quite antisemitic at the time as well. Hitler took that sentiment and run with it to unprecedented murdering levels, but it was there (and of course, when it was millions of developing worlds colonial slaves who got the axe, nobody really cared. Heck, people didn't even care that much for Jews at the time either: https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005267 ).
As for "annexing countries through war" the European colonial powers had been doing exactly the same to 2/3 of the world for centuries (and continued to do so after WWII).
The difference is that Hitler did that "annexing" to other European countries, not to third world people (for whom hypocritical Europeans could not care less).
(Of course European countries have also had a long bloody history of fighting and annexing each other for centuries up to WWI as well).
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> actually all those real successes as a politican made him being voted to become Germans fuerer.
Where do you have this from? From a computer game or a movie? From a gumball machine?
Read this book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65458.Defying_Hitler
Here I googled it for you:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-achievements-of-Hitler
Amongst all interesting points: 10. Nazis started first checking of drunk drivers.
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>I must have missed the memo on us hackers. What group of traits in people do we blame for our woes? Just so I know who we want to exterminate.
You've probably missed the memo. Not all neo-Nazis, and certainly not all modern alt-right/new-right groups are against Jews or want to exterminate any particular group. In fact many are pro-Israel and are even OK with homosexuals and blacks, but favor a strong state, discipline, no immigration, traditional values, etc. So, that means you're ok with them then?
> You've probably missed the memo. Not all neo-Nazis, and certainly not all modern alt-right/new-right groups are against Jews or want to exterminate any particular group. In fact many are pro-Israel and are even OK with homosexuals and blacks, but favor a strong state, discipline, no immigration, traditional values, etc. So, that means you're ok with them then?
I am well aware that there are normalizing voices within their ranks, that vocally proclaim a nuanced view. The news and discussions on daily stormer does not mirror that, nor did the conduct in Charlottesville. If they held those views you claim, they would not carry the Nazi flag, do the salute, use SS and other symbols, shout "Heil Trump", etc, etc, etc.
You either identify as a neo-Nazi, or you don't.
I can't say that I'm a vegan, but that I eat meat, eggs, fish and dairy.
You instead look at what someone eats, and then determine if they are an omnivore or other.
Judge the tree by its fruit and all that.
> Not all neo-Nazis
Give me a break.
I can give you all the breaks you want, but you might be surprised.