mothra wrote on Aug 15
th, 2017 at 5:49pm:
Valkie wrote on Aug 15
th, 2017 at 5:47pm:
It takes two sides to start a fight.
Neo nazis or anti racist pritestors could have either walked away.
But neo nazis are never going to back down from what they believe.
And anti racists are never going to back down on what they believe.
The result.....mahem, murder.
Perhaps they are both wrong, perhaps there is a middle ground.
But people in this forum will never agree to that.
Will they?
Are you actually defending
nazis?
Of course not.
I abhor the idea of Nazism as much as I abhor the idea that anyone has a right to impose their ideas on another if that person has their own ideas.
What I am saying is that in these confrontations it takes two sides to start fighting.
Dis the protesters run up to the nazis first and attack them?
Did the nazis run up to the protesters first and attack them?
We will never know, but one one punch is thrown its going to get nasty.
Gandhi had peaceful protests, never fighting back.
He won what he fought for by passive resistance.
But both these groups know they are right.
Both these groups know, beyond doubt that they are doing it for the right reasons.
Both these groups are so worked up that anything will set them off.
Would it not be better to protest quietly and never be involved in violence?
But we all know that will never happen.
That is what I was saying, I was defending no one, because both groups are totally out of line.