Alt-right rallies in Charlottesville, VA

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(08-12-2017, 11:54 PM)Millhouse Wrote: I'm perfectly happy that people went there to oppose them. If more people in Germany opposed the Nazis in the 1920s and early 30s, maybe they would have never got into power like they did, and 60 some million lives would have been saved from the war of extermination and domination they brought about.

Point is if people want to spew their ideas and whatnot fine. But if its evilness they are spewing, I hope for the sake of humanity there will be people there to oppose them. 

Once you start deciding who is allowed to enjoy their rights and who isn't, you're not much better than those Nazi... because you choose one fight, and sure, maybe you're on the right side this time. Next time? Who knows, but you sure won't, because you physically beat down people who you disagree with and stripped them of their rights, you're morally compromised now. Maybe you liked the feeling of beating someone down and displaying your power over them. You want to do it some more. Next thing you know, you're roving around in gangs, covering up your face, carrying a weapon, and jumping anyone who disagrees with you, or even looks like they disagree with you, ruthlessly quashing all voices that believe differently than you. All in the name of "fighting" fascism:







Then maybe it's time for someone to come beat the crap out of you, violently quashing you and your opinion and rights because they disagree with them... because that's what we will have then devolved into. A place where that's an acceptable method to deal with an opinion you don't like.

If this is allowed to continue, it's going to continue to escalate. At first it was just screaming, yelling at each other. Then it became spitting and punching, maybe a rock or something. Then people started bringing sticks, bottles, and mace. Now people are coming with eye protection from mace, helmets to protect their heads, some kind of weapon, bottles, mace. The next step in this escalation is when people start using those guns they're carrying (note there has been none used despite all the open carry people there, at least as far as I have seen). That's not going to last for forever if these people get violently mobbed any time they try to use their rights.