A Nazi who gave speeches on campuses was assassinated (in 1967)
A Nazi who gave speeches on campuses was assassinated (in 1967)
Wikipedia page on the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell
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The top comment on the video says
Why is Charlie an evil nazi? Because he said mean things about trans people? Has views that were common amongst everyone literally 30 years ago? (and still common anywhere but the west) Stop calling center-right people nazis.
I think I lost some 50 years or something out of my lifespan.
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“Why is Charlie Kirk called a nazi for dehumanizing people he doesn't agree should exist?” When dehumanization is considered a “political diagreement” it makes it clear to me why people nowadays remain complacent to an ongoing holocaust. I knew this point in society would be inevitable considering the ring-wing trajectory we’re nosedivng into but how quickly people can ignore glaring speeches of hatred towards many group of marginalized people, considering their existence as just differing political ideologies is fucking disgusting.
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It's weird, in the UK there was a very popular trans character 30 years ago in one of the biggest soaps. I don't remember there being any intense outcry about it, she was in the show for 15 years. The casting was lacking sensitivity (cis woman cast in the role) but I think it's generally felt the role was sensitively portrayed (any trans folks step in to tell me I'm wrong here).
I see people now getting all worked up about trans people now who liked/ supported the character years ago (it's hard to convey how much these soaps impacted UK life 30 odd years ago, we're talking front page news campaigning to free a jailed character/the Prime Minister making comment on it kinda thing). I'm not commenting that things are better or worse for trans people now, just that this one thing always strikes me as odd.
Also lots of things were common in Germany 80-90 years ago, I'm not sure that justification works at all.
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I remember Nadia winning Big Brother and we all coped just fine. I even remember people saying she was the sensible choice because the more ott characters were voted off too early that year.
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Better to cast a cis woman than a cis man
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yeah, it’s weird how picky people are
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If this happened in 2025 liberals would be saying "Violence has no place in politics"
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Guys is we say unhinged shit here is there any way this place gets nuked?
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to be totally honest the admins are probably among the unhinged posters lmaoo
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no. LG admins might remove your comment if you make an actionable threat but that's about it, even if the VPS this server was hosted on was shut down the admins make regular backups so they would just host it on a different one.
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probably not, unless there’s a persecution by right-wingers and liberals
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Speech is not violent by itself.
It is violent only because of a system that perpetuates or can perpetuate the ideals in that speech. The speech is only the verbal manifestation of a system that enables the violence in the first place. Otherwise it is just a crazy man speaking to himself. If there is an audience that resonates with those ideals, it is because that narrative provides the license for their bigotry; an explotative relationship with the "other" that they perceive to materially gain from.
The material always comes before the idea.
That does not mean the person behind the speech is not part of the violence or not an enabler of the violence or is absolved of the violence.
I am not, however, a free speech absolutist. Censorship will exist in every society, we must designate who that censorship is in favour of.
This may then sound like a caution against adventurism? Maybe, maybe we do need to be tackling the material that enables the idea but it must be noted adventurism is highly likely to happen regardless of how we feel in these trying times. It is then up to the astute ML to use the potential cataclysm to their advantage. Let these fascists be afraid.
What are the strategic consequences of decisively rejecting the tripartite social theory advanced by Orwell, and adopting Marx’s all-encompassing one instead? The basic call to action looks something like this:
Stop accusing the masses of being “brainwashed.” Stop treating them as cattle, stop attempting to rouse them into action by scolding them with exposure to “unpleasant truths.”
Accept instead that they have been avoiding those truths for a reason. You were able to break through the propaganda barrier, and so could they if they really wanted to. Many of these people see you as the fool, and in many cases not without reason.
Understanding people as intelligent beings, craft a political strategy that convincingly makes the case for why they and their lot are very likely to benefit from joining your political project. Not in some utopian infinite timescale, but soon.
If you cannot make this case, then forget about convincing the person in question. Focus instead on finding other people to whom such a case can be made. This will lead you directly to class analysis.
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Good video. Really shows how little changed since 1967.
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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History repeating itself.