• individual@toast.oooBanned from community
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    this is funny, but let’s try to emphasize the ‘no killing’ idea irl

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      What are you? A 12 year old hippie?

      What do you think the army or the police are for? Legally mandated hugs?

      Time to stop being a brunchie and grow up.

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        I’m saying not to murder people who are alive, I’m not talking about people who died decades ago.

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      Killing nazis is self defence when their entire ideology is “let’s create a society where we get to kill or enslave all minorities”.

      Given that nazis want me dead I will always advocate that all nazis be killed and anyone that opposes that I will assume is probably also a nazi.

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      That would be great, but imagine being in a war and you say to your enemy “how about don’t kill me?” It would be great to stop violence, but lynching Hitler would be self defense. The victims of genocide are not murderers when they defend themselves.

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        I’m not talking about not-murdering dead people like Hitler, I’m talking about not-murdering people who are alive.

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          What do you suggest the current victims being murdered by living versions of Hitler do? Passively resist as they are shuffled to the gas chamber?

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            I mean its a good question about what the best things to do are, I’m not sure I have all the answers.

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      Hitler and the Nazis committed genocide against in no particular order: Jews, east Slavs (idk if this is the correct way to refer to Russians, Belarussians, and Ukrainians, it’s what Wikipedia used), Roma, Poles, Serbs, gay and transgender people, disabled people, and I’m sure many more. Actually I don’t know why that wikipedia list doesn’t include any black populations, even though they were victims of genocide in Nazi germany as well.

      Any death of a Nazi is cause for celebration. Anybody in any of the above groups who kills a Nazi can justify it in self defense. As well as socialists and communists though I don’t list them amongst the other genocide victims since political persecution isn’t technically genocide iirc.

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        There werent a lot of black people in germany itself, they did sterilize biracial germans, and most others simply died in basically „unorganized“ murder sprees, so nazi citizens took upon themselves to „get rid“ of non-whites knowing that the state wont persecute them.

        Given how racialized communism/socialism was yeah they actually should be listed as part of genocide. Leftists were seen as viruses which pollute the nation’s ethnic body with their existence alone and twisted its victims into „jewishness“. In American fascist discourse (white) leftists are also racialized to an extent as they become „vessels“ for foreign/subhuman agents to destroy white america.

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        OK so killing Nazi children and their parents is self-defense?

        You realize many people in these social movements do not have the freedom to identify as anything they want?

        You have to draw the line when it comes to murder, on all sides, if you care about human life.

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          Jesus fucking Christ this post is about killing Hitler. The leader of the Nazi movement and head of the genocidal state.

          Also this is ahistorical. Even at the height of fascism in Nazi Germany, in 1945 where the population had decreased and Nazi party membership was at its peak, 8 million people were members of the Nazi party and the total population in Germany was almost 70 million. Obviously it was possible to not be a member of the party. And this was after over a decade of indoctrination, youth programs, and mass murder on the part of Nazi party members from the top down to the rank and file. People did not have the freedom to identify as anything they wanted, but apart from those who had a literal or figurative gun held to their heads if they didn’t join, they didn’t have to be Nazis.

          You have to draw the line when it comes to murder, on all sides, if you care about human life.

          Yes, and if you care about human life you must draw the line somewhere after killing fascists. This is the obvious solution to the “paradox” of tolerance. If you want a society tolerant and safe for everyone possible, you must exclude those who make it intolerant and unsafe. And in this example, if you value human life, you must be willing to resist fascism by all means.

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            There’s more than I can respond to here, but I just want to say that I agree with most of this.

            I hope there can be more insightful conversations like this on the internet in general.