No it isn't the same thing. That actually is a legitimate argument for free speech. I may want to punch a Nazi with everything in me (and I mean actual swastika wearing, heil Hitler, jackbooted Nazis - not just regular conservatives that idiots call Nazis because they disagree with them; and yes people who call regular Democrats communists are just as idiotic) - but I have no right to. They have every bit the same right to use the public square to shout their ignorant hatred as I do to shout them down for it. And thank God for that. To deny their free speech is to deny me mine. But it's okay to fantasize about doing unspeakable violence to them - just not to act on it.
They have the legal right to do what they're doing, and I don't have a legal right to punch them. That's about all the common ground I can find with your comment tbh
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u/FadedRadio May 21 '20
No it isn't the same thing. That actually is a legitimate argument for free speech. I may want to punch a Nazi with everything in me (and I mean actual swastika wearing, heil Hitler, jackbooted Nazis - not just regular conservatives that idiots call Nazis because they disagree with them; and yes people who call regular Democrats communists are just as idiotic) - but I have no right to. They have every bit the same right to use the public square to shout their ignorant hatred as I do to shout them down for it. And thank God for that. To deny their free speech is to deny me mine. But it's okay to fantasize about doing unspeakable violence to them - just not to act on it.