For a long time libs have used violence or threats of violence to silence dissenting voices, but at least it seemed like reasonable people would recoil at the idea that political disagreement was legitimate grounds for assaulting someone.
Then, during the election, libs started using organized violence against Trumpmos, and at the same time burning down cities with political motivations, but at least the mainstream media dealt with these instances by simply failing to report them (which is of course a sin of omission).
But the NYT article today, coupled with these Nazi punching memes seems like we have crossed an important rubicon. Violence against people who hold certain political views is now not just hidden, not just normalized, but actually encouraged and cheered in public spaces by "educated" people.
We are entering dangerous sociopolitical territory, and it is no longer unforeseeable that we will see actual politically-motivated mass deaths in this country during our lifetimes.
Luke Flores
so?
Mason Garcia
radical action is considered radical because we are socialised to let the ruling elite stay in power. violent activism will always be illegal because those in power won't just roll over and abdicate. whats the point of believing in a cause if you wont fight for it?
Michael Anderson
im less worried about political violence than i am about the rise of the far right. the next g4 summit could easily be theresa may, vladimir putin, donald trump and marine le pen
Nathan Morales
The principle behind democracy is that you convince people with your words and not through violence.
Cooper Turner
Some people deserve to be punched in the face. Richard Spencer is one of those people. Fuck him and his alt-right movement.
Nicholas King
One dude punched a literal white supremacist. It wasn't coordinated, it wasn't organized. Calm the fuck down. Maybe hiding behind "free speech" (which is a concept whose meaning most Americans could use a refresher on BTW) isn't going to cut it anymore if you make it your business to hold and promote white supremacist views.
Nolan Torres
It's sad how the libs ITT can't understand that this thread isn't about Spencer and the guy who threw the punch, but about the response to this incident by people in the mainstream.
I don't give a shit that spencer got punched. I don't care whether he is a Nazi, not a Nazi, bitchmade, not bitchmade. None of this matters.
This thread is about the public reaction to political violence, and the fact that libs ITT are too dumb to disaggregate the incident from the reaction to this incident is telling.
Landon Perry
>far right >trump Must i explain the ways in which trump is center left
Daniel James
Pick views one doesn't like, says violence is ok in that instance, then tries to lecture us on free speech.
Typical retard liberal fucktard fascist answer.
Levi Ortiz
So you're saying that all Liberals should be denouncing the violence against Spencer?
Lincoln Jenkins
>political views >physical violence That escalated quickly. Oh great now I'm feeding the trolls.
Cooper Rogers
I stated my views in the OP. Denouncing political violenceis ideal. Ignoring it is suspect. Promoting it is dangerous. Not complicated.
Matthew Ortiz
ITT: Butthurt white supremacists complaining because their boy got popped in the face. Welcome to America, faggots.
Xavier Flores
Liberal logic justifies their use of the very behavior they speak out against when it comes from other parties. They can be discriminatory, racist, hateful and violent because they are "oppressed" and since you have magic white boy penis points that supposedly make life so fucking easy, you can't be a victim, and their getting you fired and burning your house down because you have a Trump bumper stickers is justified in their tiny minds.
Wyatt Brown
obvious troll is obvious
Jordan Robinson
Who the fuck cares,i want Sup Forums to post some funny once in a while.
Justin Richardson
nig who is to stupid to realize he would lose a civil war
Cooper Garcia
This nation has a history of stomping the fuck out of Nazi's. Always will.
Fuck off with your Nazi loving bullshit. I'm a conservative and would have done the same thing to that faggot.
Angel Foster
But what happens when people don't listen to anything that doesn't come out of the TV?
Adrian Lopez
Perhaps. I'm not sure what I stand for anymore.
Jackson Russell
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Adam Green
>disaggregate I can disaggregate it just fine, and I think we should have a civil war so that I can legally shoot people like him.
I can't wait for all this moral posturing to end, so we can all just drop the sanctimonious, passive aggressive pretenses.
Joseph Miller
Luckily im a gun totting white man, so if a chimp comes at me or my boys hes going to get put down. Superiority by force is their game, what happens when i bring lethal force.
Leo Thomas
Oh please,you won't shoot anything but yourself before some nigger beats the shit out of you.
Jaxon Butler
You killed harambe, didn't you?
Mason Rivera
How many guns have you totted, user?
Joshua Walker
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John Turner
I'm a lib and I don't see this political violence as a good thing.
The fact that Richard Spencers is blaming antifas definitely raises an eyebrow for me. Would never want any side to move to violence.
Brody Johnson
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Ayden Cruz
I agree entirely. I despise the alt-right, but you can't stifle differing viewpoints with violence. That's the foundation of democracy. You can say whatever you want and if I don't like it, I'm free to call you a cunt if I want, but what I can't do is put my hands on you. The free exchange of ideas, whether you agree with those ideas or not, is they key to maintaining a free and democratic society.
The people cheering at this asshat getting punched are thugs and should be ashamed of themselves.
Adrian Howard
Fuck off to your containment board with your tired ass autistic BS.
Sebastian Adams
Me a Veteran who grew up hunting, served, and has actively shot at people shooting me. Vs tyrone who at best stole a gun from his drug dealer We will see how fast tyrone biggums and his group can move, not faster then a bullet. Whatever its not worth talking to a dindu about, come on down to houston sometime, and try and swing on one of us, see how fast you get dropped.
Too many
Asher Gomez
Not too mention libs promote lies about incidents of harassment while downplaying the facts when it turns out the incident didn't happen.
They promote the narrative that false reports are the exception when they tend to be the rule.
Carter Peterson
Stupid liberal fucks don't try this shit in the south because motherfuckers are strapped
Joshua Phillips
lmfao please do, i'm dying to hear this one
Sebastian Williams
This is what hes totting,check it out.
Cooper Walker
The U.S. is over due for a good ole civil war. And if it happens, that's fine. People think liberal extremists are scary. Just wait until you see the shit the other side can think up.
Jordan Richardson
sounds like when black people were lynched in the south not to long ago and they didnt even have to disagree with anyone they were just different. and those crimes went unpunished for years so whos to say this isn't jst a repeating cycle of humans finding excuses to abuse other humans regardless of affilation race or religion.
Some people just wanna hurt others and use this shit as a scape goat.
Wyatt Myers
Violence against literal nazis isn't anything new. Vidal Sassoon was antifa and used to bring his straight edge razors to rallies in London. Americans have always just been pussies. Good to see them man up a little
Nathaniel Davis
Dude, I've totted like... tens and tens of nerf gunz. Liberals hate styrofoam and that's a known true fact.
Jacob Russell
What street you winning fights on?Sesame?
Grayson Price
hate speech is not merely a "differing viewpoint". It's not even covered by the first amendment. The USA has a long history of kicking Nazi ass and it didn't stop once WW2 ended.
Parker Young
>he can't read
Oliver Bell
Do you think liberals wouldve supported ww2? The war, the dying, killing nazis, killing japs?
Chase Green
You had twenty two minutes for a clever respond.
Luis Bailey
This guy used to disrupt Nazi rallies and fight them with razors. This guy!
Ryder Cruz
Yes... cause they did
Wait, you realize that liberalism isn't a new thing, right?
Alexander Barnes
I can't remember the last time i saw a internet tough guy,i think it was back in 05.
Charles Hernandez
But it depends how you define hate speech. For example, I don't believe there's a scientific basis for transgenderism and think it's actually a mental illness. I arrived at this conclusion based on statistics and evidence that support that. I do not hate transgender people, I just think gender reassignment surgery is the wrong solution to their problem. Most PC types would call me a bigot for thinking that, though, and if they had their way, I would be in trouble for expressing that viewpoint.
This is part of the problem. Regressive leftists try to redefine what constitutes hate speech in order to stifle opposition to their viewpoint. They don't try to debate people rationally, they try to silence them, either by force or by law.
That's wrong.
Charles Jenkins
Yea, I do. But, I'm talking about today's liberals. Would they supported it?
No need to get snarky, just a question.
Evan Garcia
>Agreed.
Noah Long
In all actuality it is going to lead to a very bloody civil war if things don't chill out.
Liam Wood
Watchouwegotabadasshere.jpeg
Julian Russell
Just another POL power fantasy, wish they could just fuck off and stay where they belong so they can LARP all they want without shitting up the whole place.
Leo Jones
I think the majority would, yes.
See, we tend to focus on the extremists because they make the most noise, and the Internet has exacerbated this; however, not all liberals are SJW's, and not all conservatives are rednecks.
If we were literally under attack by an invading state who wanted to take over, liberals would be on board with the resistance just as much as conservatives.
Adrian Foster
Shut the fuck up
Jace Harris
Don't you ever tell me what to do
Jackson Clark
Seconded. There was another such group in history that did the same thing. The Catholic/Christian Church in the 3rd century. Anyone who expressed a viewpoint different than the dogma of the church would be branded a heretic. And in those days, the church had tight control of the government and could therefore kill any heretics. Fortunately for us, these degenerates don't have that sort of control.
William Thompson
>Cringe: The post.
Hunter Cox
But isn't whats coming out of the TV supporting the rioters or just ignoring them?
Mason Fisher
Not an argument.
James Martinez
Can't forget the LGBTQ Communist "Rioters"
Adam Smith
Say what you want. These leftists hold these views like it's their religion.
Alexander Reyes
Your tipping just registered on the Richter scale
Sebastian Hernandez
ITT we are triggered nazi cucks
Isaac Cooper
Ikr. Why haven't they died of AIDS already?
Thomas Reyes
I need help keeping this related thread on the first page: If you want to help, please take over the bumping/posting clickbait photos for me.
I've done my part for the day.
Gavin Hughes
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Jackson Ortiz
We pretend like society moved away from might makes right, but the last two years prove otherwise.
Christopher White
Because the life expectancy is average for someone who's on meds.
Jaxson Hill
Always been this way. Liberals started the KKK to scare colored people away from the poles so they couldn't vote republican.
Logan Myers
BUMP FAGGS
Joseph Ortiz
If they keep what they're doing up they die to bullets before the AIDS get'em
Luis Price
Who's the guy getting punched?
Wyatt King
Which pole?
Leo Bell
You mom should move towards my mighty dick
Parker Jones
The north pole
Angel Cruz
Normally I would agree, but the American right has waged a 50 year war on science that has created a base that is so ill-equipped to fact check anything that they can be lied to and never escape the lie. In fact, most of them are willing to die to protect the lies they've been told.
If words worked on those types of people I think it would have worked already.
Gabriel Parker
white supremacy is not a political view, it's fascist hate speech and not acceptable under any circumstances. i'd beat your fucking ass if you weren't such a fucking faggot to hide behind a computer.
Kayden Sanchez
>le fedora maymay
Every fucking time anyone even remotely criticisms religion now. Has it occurred to you dipshits that someone might have a critical view of religion without being a euphoric fedoralord? Or in this case, is merely stating a historical accuracy? The church actually did brand people as heretics for questioning their dogma and actually did torture them. This is historical fact.
Caleb Hughes
NYPA FAGGOT
Benjamin Anderson
Harambe wasnt a chimp, you idiot. He was a monkey.
Joshua Sullivan
I knew it! That's where all the voting machines are. Fuckin liberals.
Angel Bell
Why are these posts so fucking boring and bad and cringey?
Evan James
Someone who refers to himself as a white nationalist and is essentially the living avatar of a Sup Forums edge lord
Lucas Barnes
A cuck of the alt-right wing party AKA KKK member Spencer. Nigger got KTFO and started crying about it on news and twitter about how he's going to bring lawsuit on protestors.
Austin Sullivan
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David Long
Actually, he was a great ape.
Ayden Long
You have to be right, though, and the Leftists are clearly wrong.
Don't let the US fall to the poison of Communism.
Landon Baker
About what I expected, tbh. I'm not even mad. Just disappointed. You've let your mother and I down.
Henry Young
My meat popsicle is moistening
David Powell
>veteran
you mean former government puppet invading countries for oil? your country is a fucking joke and you stand for are lies. there is no racial superiority or american dream.
Ryder Howard
Damn your education level is limited. It explains why the military took you in. How were the ass rapings btw?
Cooper Parker
My body is ready
Sebastian Wood
I don't really have a problem with conservatives or the right, I just with they'd stop trying to pass legislation based on theocracy
Jack Roberts
Oh, then I'm not the least bit sorry for him.
Matthew Anderson
>View outside the Overton window should be met with political violence. -Internet tough guy privileged enough to live in a place where political violence has not been normalized.
Matthew Kelly
Go to your safe space fagg lord
Leo Jones
If there is a civil war in the US, it'll be a class war, nothing else