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Current discourse is that it would have been wrong to throw a milkshake at Hitler, is it?
@mjg59 I gotta ask.
I'm Canadian; of #British politics I know only what I read. I'm happy to accept the fedi's assessment that this #Farage character is political scum of the lowest order.
#Progressives hate him; one threw a #milkshake on him, which is common assault. So he was assaulted because of his politics. And progressives are cheering it on.
Is #political #violence acceptable? If a #conservative had done this to a leader of the Greens or something, is that also #acceptable?
@cazabon political violence against fascists is acceptable, yes, because we know what comes next
Unfortunately, that's a fuzzy and #subjective line. Some random Hummer-driving MAGA-loving idiot may very well consider the leader of a "green" party to be a fascist for wanting to outlaw private vehicle ownership or non-EV vehicles or something like that.
I'm afraid that if you #condone assault on a politician for their views, you are approving its use against all politicians, and I don't like where that leads.
@cazabon cool and they'd be wrong
Let me know if you change your mind after "the other side" (whoever that might be) assaults you because they disagree with your views.
Condoning political violence because it's against people you dislike ain't gonna end well, and is morally reprehensible.
@cazabon it's trivial to produce an ethical explanation for why throwing a milkshake at a fascist is not the same as shooting someone advocating for the banning of internal combustion engines, and pretending otherwise is just tedious