• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Keep your heel on someone’s throat, they are going to bite at you. Just a matter of time. It’s still like 100 violent right wing nuts for each violent left wing nut.

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      10 months ago

      Calling them “nuts” is ableist and ridiculous. Right wingers do it because they usually get away with it. Leftists are doing it for community self preservation. GTFO with this equivocating bs.

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        10 months ago

        You don’t think the right winger extremists think it’s a fight for self-preservation?

        Also if you don’t like “nut” give me a thesaurus of acceptable euphemisms for folks who are less-constrained by social norms against violence. Until then I’m going to rely on folks using context clues to understand. Fuck, everyone in my family has some kind of atypical mental shit going on from depression to autism to bipolar and anxiety disorder. If gay people get a pass for the f-word and black folks get a pass on the n-word, I’m invoking my fucking pass for “nut”.

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          10 months ago

          My primary issue is calling people “nuts” for acting in self defense. But whatever get all defensive and double down and invoke other slurs in your defense. Cool.

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            10 months ago

            They sought out those people and shot at them. That’s not self-defense. But you’re right there is a lot more nuance to the situation than I explored in a two sentence 5000 foot view hot take. Equivocating wasn’t my intent nor was painting trans folks as nuts and I see how it came across that way. I expected the heel on the throat to broadly cover that. I’m going to leave it at that.

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              10 months ago

              nor was painting trans folks as nuts

              And yet you did. And not just trans people you implied that “violent left wing nuts” were some how equally bad if less in number.

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              They sought out those people and shot at them. That’s not self-defense

              It absolutely is. When the Viet Cong sought out and shot American occupiers, it was self defense. When French and Italian partisans crept up on the SS and riddled their cars with bullets, that was self defense. When an antifascist in America shoots at fascists, it is always self defense, because the fascists are a threat to everyone.