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Rape jokes still are not funny.
I didn't even notice the rape joke.
I read it as getting knifed.
I won't be shedding any tears for the guy who started the "your body, my choice" meme.
I read it as a jail thing. His body in jail because of their (jury) choice.
But now I realize it was probably rape.
Stop trying to police language.
Jokes need only to be judged on if they're funny, or not.
dat irony tho
Impressive.
Only one of those words is actually English, and you still managed to use it incorrectly.
Unless it was an extremely misplaced and subtle nod to Alanis Morissette.
Nah it wasn't. Although I really should listen to more of her stuff.
Seriously though, what is the deal with trying to stop others from doing the exact same thing that you are doing by speaking in the imperative form?
It's a comment section after all.
Wrong, they are extremely funny when it's the fascists getting raped.
Do you hear yourself?
Yes, I am extremely frustrated with the level of tolerance people grant fascists. They should have been crushed a decade ago. Do people not learn from the Weimar Republic.
Anyone who advocates against other people's human rights, should lose the right to their own.
You and I are on such vastly different platforms that you're one of the few people I don't think I can find any common ground with. Whereas I agree one's own qualified rights end where others rights begin, I consider basic human rights to be absolute, and certainly not influenced by whatever political views you do or don't share.
By extension, the abstracted opinion of "I think it's funny that <a group of people I don't like> " is borderline fascism in itself, and your position is cancerous to any anti-fascist movement you're involved in.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but if you aren't familiar, Nick Fuentes believes (in his own words) the following:
This isn't <a group of people I don't like> this is <a group of people who support the rape, murder, and genocide of people they don't like>. Nick Fuentes is a literal crypto-fascist. Fascists are owed zero tolerance, and the use of hyperbole to shock or scare them (or scare others away from falling in with them) is a valid tactic.
Oi Polloi - Bash The Fash
Thanks for your reply, I appreciate your insight.
We still disagree, but I genuinely appreciate the additional context you have to offer. I'm not wholly altruistic, I think Fuentes is a massive piece of human garbage.
But, he is human - and with that, is his right to human rights.
I don't like him as much as the next person and that is an entirely subjective opinion, but levelling the same kind of hatred and lack of compassion effectively makes you no better than fanny balls Fuentes is. It's a dangerously small leap from <I don't like what this person stands for> and therefore sanctioning sexual assault, to <they don't like what I stand for> and therefore sanctioning sexual assault.
I suspect we're on the same broad page, but our means are vastly different.
I suspect the same and I appreciate you engaging with me civilly.
Your concerns about the situation being a slippery slope are understandable. We're discussing things that live on the very edges of basic, modern human morality. I recognize that this creates a lot of unease.
I don't hate the human. I would not kill baby Hitler if I had a time machine, as baby Hitler was not born evil.
My hate lies with what the human has become, the views the human has developed. I will not tolerate them. If that hatred, of those who outwardly espouse this level of murderous intolerance (and only those who do so), makes me no better than Fuentes, then I suppose I will gladly be that villain, if only so that others can continue to live their lives in peace. The violence and genocide inherent to the fascist ideology must never be allowed to take root. It is an existential threat to global peace that must be shut down with any and every means available. Peaceful means should always be prioritized where possible.
I think this is the rude awakening that a lot of people are going to need to learn. Again.
Fascism is an infection. It's like gangrene, if you do not remove the limb, it will infect and kill the host.
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A great question. I was going to call it a "thought experiment", but as Wikipedia more succinctly calls it, a "philosophical concept". I'm wary of jumping to the paradox of tolerance as a device to handwave away violence against anyone.
It's an important point to consider and it raises vital questions that challenges my own argument, but ultimately the rights of the human override any philosophical ideals.
In this instance, I would much rather preserve the rights of any person - arsehole or not - rather than subject them to sexual violence because of a perceived difference in political opinion.
Good thing that's not what it does, then
Thanks for taking the time to reply, but:
I lost interest after this. Someone's talking about normalising the sexual assault of a group of people - as likeable or dislikeable as they may be - and all I can see is some "I told you so" word salad?
I'm sorry if I've picked you up wrong, but I'm happy to be corrected.
There is a difference. The one group does not deserve tolerance.
But apart from that it's true.