Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

fruknkl:

i’m going to articulate this poorly because words aren’t my strong suit but

there’s no “other side” to the holocaust. there is no “other side” to genocide. it’s wrong, full stop. to argue for it even hypothetically is a monstrous thing to do.

the nazis need “humanising” only insofar as to maintain the understanding that people are capable of doing such evil, and to keep watch of ourselves to make sure something like the holocaust doesn’t happen again. 

nobody needs to humanise the nazis to “understand their side of the story.” their side is void and wrong and worthless. current neonazis and holocaust deniers are the new breed of this evil and should be stamped out, not have their viewpoints and arguments and beliefs taught in schools as a valid system of beliefs. 

*puts a gentle hand on your shoulder* thank you for this post

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the44thpilot:

dark-haired-hamlet:

There are n*zis on campus rn and a student brought out like a 1997 boombox and started blasting Taking The Hobbits to Isengard every time they tried to say something.

“Those who do not share our genes -THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS - THE MASTER RACE - TO ISENGARD TO ISENGARD - AND I BELIEVE - THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE-”

Chaotic good

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Community dynamics, or, punch the fucking Nazi already.

mooglemisbehaving:

Look, there are still lines. No one’s talking about shooting nazis or violating nazis or torturing nazis. No one’s passing a law to get anyone who calls themself “alt-right” on Twitter thrown in prison. It’s not about “kill everyone who doesn’t agree with you.”

It’s about making the social consequences for advocating genocide excruciatingly fucking clear, for the benefit of the potential victims of that genocide.

What do you do if you see someone attacking a vulnerable person in public? Don’t answer right away, picture it: a grown adult hitting or screaming at a child, or an elderly person, or someone with a cane or a guide dog. What do you do? You leap to the victim’s defense. Even if the cane-user has a mean swing or the child knows kung fu, you fucking step in, because that person should not have to fight alone. (or, y’know, you start screaming for help, or something. Each according to ability.)

Because hey, guess what, we’re social primates with a community structure. We teach each other how to behave via how we react to infractions. More than that, when we react - either way - to one member of the community attacking another, we make it clear who is part of our community and who is not.

That is super fucking important, y’all. Most important thing in the world.

And so we come back to the Nazi Next Door. Nice guy. Clean-cut. Picks up after his dog. And he stands in front of national television and explains, in a reasonable tone of voice, that Nazi-ism is Right and Good and The Future. Guys, let’s not pretend this is not an attack, okay? Let’s not be disingenuous. We all know what Nazis stand for.

When this happens… the community has a choice to make. Which monkey gets protected and which one gets ostracized? Who do we welcome and who do we sucker-punch into next week? It’s not morality - it’s community dynamics. It’s also very much a binary choice. If we ignore the Nazi, if we allow the Nazi, then every single member of that community who isn’t Christian, white, straight or able-bodied has cause to believe that they’re the ostracized monkey.

I’ll say it loud for the people in the back: THERE IS MORE WORTH IN ONE NON-CHRISTIAN/NON-WHITE/NON-STRAIGHT/NON-ABLE-BODIED/ETC PERSON’S LITTLE FINGER THAN THERE IS IN A BARGEFUL OF NAZIS. Choose fucking wisely.

Punch the Nazi. Yell at the Nazi. Mock the Nazi. Pie the Nazi in the face. Turn off the Nazi’s microphone. Do whatever you have to do to communicate you are not welcome here, you are not one of us. Because even if the Nazi doesn’t listen…

…you know who is listening.

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knitmeapony:

scientia-rex:

There are good reasons to not want to personally punch a Nazi in the face but let’s be clear, none of them are because a Nazi doesn’t deserve it.

I remain staunchly pro-choice on Nazi punching.

“Should I, personally, punch a Nazi right now?”  That’s up to you, whether or not you feel safe in doing so, your own personal beliefs on violent vs non-violent protest, etc.

“Should people, in general, punch Nazis?”  Yes.

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The noble tradition of the plastic Vuvuzela to be Really Fucking Disrupting of, well, anything, really

primarybufferpanel:

I don’t think people in the US got this as much as we did over here in Europe and the rest of the football (as opposed to hand-egg) loving world. But this:

is a vuvuzela. The football loving (or just tolerating, or culturally affected by) world met these things en masse during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. They were mass produced, they were fucking everywhere. They sound like this:

Over wide open terrain, perfect to summon your people for say, village council, which was what the original instrument was apparently used for. The plastic mass produced thing, in close terrain, is perfect to make it impossible for anybody to hear themselves think, let alone speak. Could it be perfect to disrupt a nazi, for instance if you are not able, for whatever reason, to punch him in the face? My friends, it just might be. Because these things were so heavily mass produced, at one point they couldn’t give them away. There is almost certainly still bunches of them sitting around waiting for the opportune moment, and the opportune moment is now.

If you’re someplace where nazis come to hate speechify (campus etc) get one. You don’t have to be super close for these things to be super effective, which is helpful if you’re not willing/able to get close up in somebody’s face - the damn things are just as disruptive from ten metres away.

It’s Vuvuzela revival time.

(Alternatively, I’ve seen collapsible ones on ebay and aliexpress for $2.50 and free shipping. Just saying)