Oh yeah. When the best you can say about your profession is “there are a few exceptional cops who are better than actual neo-nazis, but they’re rare enough that it’s newsworthy…” Well, maybe quit? You could get a better job as like a used-car salesman or burglar, you know, something with better morals.
That only works if your definition of society embraces everyone. Fascists would say that their enemies want to “destroy society” and deserve no rights, because their idea of society is limited to the people who they think should be part of the national community.
Those are pretty much equivalent statements. The only question then is who gets to define what society is. If we allow it to be left to the fascists, we are done. Many of us, quite literally.
This is what so many of us here are getting at when we say caving to their demands, like the recent Target threads, is NOT an option. That’s letting them define what society is, and that’s simply and unequivocally NOT acceptable.
Sauce for the goose and all. Fuck Nazis, punch them at every opportunity, make life as uncomfortable as possible for them, make them crawl back under their rocks.
I simply must point out that punching Nazis is not always the right thing to do. I mean, what if they’re already on the ground? In this case, it’s much better to kick them. Some of us don’t have the best knees and it can be a strain on the body to bend over that far.
Excellent point!
And if you don’t want to get too close, there’s always the “throw a bottle of urine or a rotten tomato” option.
I like how you’re opening the discussion up to those of us with certain physical limitations. We want to be involved, too.