@Catsmeow said in RL Anger:
I feel like we should all go back to kindergarten. "Keep your hands to yourself." That was a really good rule.
I just don't think that violence is the answer.
Like Nazi (since we are using this) hates all the things not them.
Nazi is violent and does a thing.
It is not the right show (to me) that you put your hands on them.
It is okay to find a legal ramification against them.
It is okay to educate them out of this thought pattern if possible.
I (personally) feel that the only thing that violence begets is more violence. If you are violent against X group, etc. Then you in a way give them an example to point to and prove their point.
This is definitely a naive way of looking at this particular chain of events.
The problem here is that the law doesn't do anything about it. The problem here is a systemic bias in favor of Nazis, white supremacists, and men who engender and foster bigotry against people of color, women, and non-heteronormative people in order to victimize them.
There is no recourse in the law at this time because the law is on their side.
What do you think the law would do if it did something? You think it would be peaceful? In what world are cops peaceful when facing opposition willing to turn to violence? (And, further, in what world are cops generally peaceful at all? Not mine.)
Your proposed solution is just as violent, in the end, as someone who says "yes, it's always okay to punch a Nazi". It's just that your solution looks for backing from a system that is, at this time, categorically unable and unwilling to take those actions.
So it goes.
As for people deciding they get to punch anyone they define as a Nazi, regardless of logic and actual facts, that's just because there are stupid people, and not indicative of a significant problem in a movement (if you can even call it a movement).
If anything, a small percentage of people deciidng they now get to punch anyone they can define as a Nazi based on their arbitrary and non-sensical definition of such is still probably less of a problem than actual Nazis and white supremacists fomenting bigotry, violence, and systemic disenfranchisement of others.