Hitler ordered killings under his authority, absolutely. That healthcare CEO is a much better comparison to when people immediately die as a result of your direct actions and authority to order people to follow through.
It’s not the same. Claiming every racist, bigot, homophobe that opens their mouth is akin to Hitler and therefore can be summarily executed is not an argument that is going to win anyone over outside of lemmy and by the time Stephen Miller is ACTUALLY ordering killings and the public might actually support violent push back you’ll all already be in jail for terrorism and mass murdering YouTubers and even then nobody will feel bad about it.
How else to respond to justifying murdering someone based on “words can be weapons” and the genuine support for that sentiment here? I’m only addressing the inevitable outcome of those who’d actually take that line of thinking to its inevitable conclusion, and if it seems absurd then put a bit more thought into who you think deserves to die because that’s where this path leads.
We can discuss how words can be used to inflict violence. And draw upon historical figures as examples of when that has literally happened. Without literally calling someone a nazi, or calling for their death.
We should be able to have a conversation about how his “free speech” (which I support), literally condoned violence. Here is a highlight of his comments. Please mark the ones which condone violence, and those that dont.
I never said he deserved to die. I am arguing with the articles wording of “he only ever used words”, which glosses over what those words were
That’s good, but most here feel the murder was justified and their rationale is the same. I hope they’ll also consider your clarification with due regard.
Hitler ordered killings under his authority, absolutely. That healthcare CEO is a much better comparison to when people immediately die as a result of your direct actions and authority to order people to follow through.
It’s not the same. Claiming every racist, bigot, homophobe that opens their mouth is akin to Hitler and therefore can be summarily executed is not an argument that is going to win anyone over outside of lemmy and by the time Stephen Miller is ACTUALLY ordering killings and the public might actually support violent push back you’ll all already be in jail for terrorism and mass murdering YouTubers and even then nobody will feel bad about it.
I was ready to upvote this but you kinda went off the rails at the end lol
How else to respond to justifying murdering someone based on “words can be weapons” and the genuine support for that sentiment here? I’m only addressing the inevitable outcome of those who’d actually take that line of thinking to its inevitable conclusion, and if it seems absurd then put a bit more thought into who you think deserves to die because that’s where this path leads.
At no point did I ever justify murder.
We can discuss how words can be used to inflict violence. And draw upon historical figures as examples of when that has literally happened.
I never said he deserved to die. I am arguing with the articles wording of “he only ever used words”, which glosses over what those words were
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At no point did I ever justify murder.
We can discuss how words can be used to inflict violence. And draw upon historical figures as examples of when that has literally happened. Without literally calling someone a nazi, or calling for their death.
We should be able to have a conversation about how his “free speech” (which I support), literally condoned violence. Here is a highlight of his comments. Please mark the ones which condone violence, and those that dont.
I never said he deserved to die. I am arguing with the articles wording of “he only ever used words”, which glosses over what those words were
That’s good, but most here feel the murder was justified and their rationale is the same. I hope they’ll also consider your clarification with due regard.
I don’t necessarily disagree, I just think it needs to be explained in a more grounded way.