As a Jewish gay person of color it deeply disturbs me to see an increase in nazism and hateful rhetoric. Is there anything we can do to prevent the rise of this hateful ideology (besides generic things like voting)?
As a Jewish gay person of color it deeply disturbs me to see an increase in nazism and hateful rhetoric. Is there anything we can do to prevent the rise of this hateful ideology (besides generic things like voting)?
Voting, healthy debate, and standard self-defense practices should cover it.
I specifically mentioned in my post, besides generic things like voting
“If you have 9 men at a table and they welcome 1 Nazi, then there are 10 Nazis at the table”
We have been through all this before. Believing that you can “change hearts and minds” means that you’re willing to sacrifice the rest of us to preserve people who have shown they patently don’t deserve it.
Bigots have agency, they choose to be awful people every single day. You admit that this is the case, because you think you can change their minds (you cannot). Ten people in Buffalo are dead because people like you thought they could change a mind, rather than ensuring a Nazi didn’t do something terrible by whatever means necessary.
The shooter had literally been investigated for having illegal firearms before. People like you thought “he’s just a kid, he’ll change.” And he did. For the worse.
Instead of getting mandated counseling or even thrown in a psyche ward they let him plan a mass shooting and kill ten people who were just trying to go to the grocery store.
The “self defense” style of fascist violence that you hinted at in your comment speaks volumes to your character. Downvoted.
So what kind of answer do you want? Do you want to grab a gun and go fight the Nazis like they did in the 20th century?
Like why are you here if your plan is to shoot down all answers to your question. How do you think a person can fight against Nazism? If it’s not by choosing not to act like a Nazi, I’m not really sure what else there is.