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Comment by leereeves

9 years ago

To paraphrase JFK: those who prevent peaceful self-expression make violent self-expression inevitable.

I don't think Cloudflare is preventing DailyStormer from engaging in peaceful expression. They are just not going to help them do it.

And based on events in Charlottesville, white supremacy is inherently a violent movement & don't need any excuses to engage in violence. If they say they engage in violence because media & internet companies shut them out, I'm not sure I buy that excuse.

  • > based on events in Charlottesville, white supremacy is inherently a violent movement

    They've been marching for years without violence.

    Antifa, on the other hand...when have they ever protested without violence?

    • "They've been marching for years without violence."

      And then, when they felt they had a government sympathetic to their aims, they stopped being non-violent, and stopped covering their faces to hide their identities. And someone died being run over with a car, many people were brutally beaten (this has been captured on videotape), and two cops died responding to the chaos they caused.

      I don't know about the history of "Antifa" violence but I do know what I can see with my own eyes, which is that Nazis are violent. Their expressed philosophy of government is of white nationalism, of removing all non-whites from the nation (whether through deportation or genocide). It is a proposal of mass violence. It is a movement of violence.

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