leupagus:TWEETSTORM 2017 by meakoopa on Twitterevery liberal democracy realizes early on there are s
leupagus:TWEETSTORM 2017 by meakoopa on Twitterevery liberal democracy realizes early on there are some positions which must prima facie be aggressively excluded from public discourseu can’t even articulate WHY they are unreasonable bc to articulate WHY they are unreasonable is to itself open the possibility of reason.this is why u can’t allow “just hypothetical” questions abt whether Jews or blacks, as Spencer posits, are innately inferior/destroyable.Nazi theorists like Carl Schmitt VERY QUICKLY diagnosed this weakness in liberal democracies -U can collapse a democracy by insisting the democracy had a right to end itself: Hindenburg to Hitler, “the peaceful transition of power.”Intolerance cannot be tolerated, bc this corrosive effect means the law can be co-opted by, and so protective of, fascism.Fascism wriggles into democracies by insisting on right to be heard, achieves critical mass, then dissolves the organs that installed it. WHICH MEANS the stronger it becomes, it cannot be sufficiently combatted with reason. Bc “reason” becomes the state’s tool to enforce.The Overton Window becomes weaponized - as we are seeing in @KellyannePolls and @seanspicer’s “alternative facts.” The state decides.Liberalism literally cannot see this - its insistence on rule of law, not genocideal lust, is what turned the German people into good Nazis.some positions must be excluded from discourse. Some positions you do not listen to - u can only punch.A society that begins to entertain why some members of its polis might not belong invites catastrophic decay. Those voices must be excluded.TL;DR - punching a nazi is actually a supreme act of democracy bc it will not tolerate a direct affront of a fellow citizen’s citizenship.the term to interrogate in “should you punch a nazi?” is SHOULD - what is the status of that “should”?Legally: no; ethically: fuck yes.This articulated my thoughts better than I’ve been able to w/r/t punching the shit out of Nazis. -- source link
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