Disgraceful! Richard Spencer Sucker-Punched While Giving Interview

[Praktik]

I'm a bit funny when it comes to things like this...

Did the guy deserve to be punched? Probably, yes.
Am I particularly sorry for him that he was punched? Not really - see above.
Is it right/lawful/should he have been punched? No. Violence isn't the answer.

And I add to it, "is it likely to be a harbinger of the downfall of society?" No....

 

[Belz...]

Your feelings are not important

On the contrary, they are the only thing that is important

Ladies and gentlemen: the rational thinker.

You've thus now admitted to abandoning skepticism and critical thinking in favour of the age-old and antiquated means of determining objective reality. And we all know how those turn out.

 

[uke2se]

Ladies and gentlemen: the rational thinker.

You've thus now admitted to abandoning skepticism and critical thinking in favour of the age-old and antiquated means of determining objective reality. And we all know how those turn out.

Yes, that's what I have admitted. Get with the times, man.

 

[NWO Sentryman]

And I add to it, "is it likely to be a harbinger of the downfall of society?" No....

Yet Northern Ireland is still recovering from "Punch people you don't like" being normalised.

 

[Belz...]

Yep there is nothing fundamentally wrong about advocating genocide, it is just one of those things.

Have you gotten around to getting that trademark on strawmen?

 

[Praktik]

Yet Northern Ireland is still recovering from "Punch people you don't like" being normalised.

I guess we're on the edge of civil war then!


<clutches pearls tightly>

 

[Belz...]

Yes, that's what I have admitted. Get with the times, man.

You've lost it.

What are you even doing on a forum dedicated to reason and skepticism, then, if you've abandoned those principles entirely?

 

[Belz...]

Free speech - Not just for the people you agree with!

In fact, it's especially for those you disagree with.

 

[uke2se]

You've lost it.

What are you even doing on a forum dedicated to reason and skepticism, then, if you've abandoned those principles entirely?

I'm here because I'm dedicated to reason and skepticism. I haven't abandoned those principles entirely.

Now, go out there and punch some Nazis. Make America Great Again.

 

[uke2se]

Have you gotten around to getting that trademark on strawmen?

That's what the Nazi in question does, so it ain't no strawman.

 

[NWO Sentryman]

I guess we're on the edge of civil war then!


<clutches pearls tightly>

Oh you're such a saint in paradise aren't you. Well I'm pretty sure you would be less "RAR GET ANGRY!" if you had to:

- Fear being tortured in front of your mother by masked thugs
- Check under your car for bombs
- Fear masked thugs kidnapping your mother in front of you and burying her body in an unmarked grave
- Live under Martial Law.

I mean, what's to stop someone from going "I think someone is a fascist therefore I should stab/shoot/blow them up!"?

 

[Belz...]

I'm here because I'm dedicated to reason and skepticism.

That doesn't jive with your statement that only feelings matter, which flies in the fact of reason and skepticism.

That's what the Nazi in question does, so it ain't no strawman.

No, Turtle as usual strawmanned another poster's opinion in a silly attempt to make them seem "bad". I guess that'd make it OK to punch them afterward.

 

[uke2se]

Oh you're such a saint in paradise aren't you. Well I'm pretty sure you would be less "RAR GET ANGRY!" if you had to:

- Fear being tortured in front of your mother by masked thugs
- Check under your car for bombs
- Fear masked thugs kidnapping your mother in front of you and burying her body in an unmarked grave
- Live under Martial Law.

I mean, what's to stop someone from going "I think someone is a fascist therefore I should stab/shoot/blow them up!"?

All that just because you started punching Nazis?

 

[uke2se]

That doesn't jive with your statement that only feelings matter, which flies in the fact of reason and skepticism.

Nope, it doesn't jive, does it?

No, Turtle as usual strawmanned another poster's opinion in a silly attempt to make them seem "bad". I guess that'd make it OK to punch them afterward.

Turtle described the reality of the situation, as opposed to the slippery slope argument this has turned into.

 

[Joe Random]

Language warning

 

[Belz...]

Nope, it doesn't jive, does it?

Yeah but then I'd expect contradiction from someone who bases their thinking on feelings.

Turtle described the reality of the situation, as opposed to the slippery slope argument this has turned into.

No, he said this:

Yep there is nothing fundamentally wrong about advocating genocide, it is just one of those things. Like publishing the addresses of abortion doctors and other fun acts of free speech. Next people are going to say sending death threats is anything other than funny.

NO ONE has said that there was nothing wrong with it here. So essentially accusing Newtons Bit of siding with Spencer is not only dishonest, but a nice way to make Bit seem like the enemy. Do you not see why that's wrong?

 

[uke2se]

Language warning

How very nuanced and unbiased.

 

[Praktik]

All that just because you started punching Nazis?

The end is nigh!

 

[uke2se]

Yeah but then I'd expect contradiction from someone who bases their thinking on feelings.

So why are you going on about it?

No, he said this:



NO ONE has said that there was nothing wrong with it here. So essentially accusing Newtons Bit of siding with Spencer is not only dishonest, but a nice way to make Bit seem like the enemy. Do you not see why that's wrong?

Ponderingturtle is sarcastically expressing frustration over the way members bend over backwards to defend a Nazi from getting punched by comparing said punching with the Troubles of Northern Ireland, or even in one completely outrageous case, with the plight of Jews under Nazi rule.

 

[NWO Sentryman]

All that just because you started punching Nazis?

No, it started with "Get angry and punch people you don't like!"