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Its something people say to feel powerful and punk. Most of the people saying it couldn't snap a twig let alone throw a punch.
Its similar to the fat boomers on the right who say they are ready to go to war.
If they were serious about it I do think it would hurt their cause given how easy it is these days to take an event and spin a narrative out of it.
That's a lot of strawmanning you're doing on behalf of Nazis.
That's cause they are a Nazi. Take a look at their apartheid justification in their comments.
Well, see. I like to call out folk like this, to get their justifications out in the open. Sunlight being the best disinfectant and all.
Your entire instance advocates genocide on a daily basis. You have no morals.
I have the moral belief that genocide is wrong.
I use a more strict definition of genocide than the ICJ: Any government that intentionally blocks food, medicine, and potable water to a population it considers problematic is a government intentionally committing genocide.
Again, that is a more strict definition then the ICJ uses.
Never again meant for everyone.
None of what I said is strawmanning for nazis.
The definition of the Strawman Fallacy may beg to differ.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
I know what a strawman is now what part of my comment was a strawman?
Diminishing and assigning motive
And these fat boomers you're equating are the literal strawmen.
Are you sure you read the article?
None of that was used to refute and argument. No where in my comment did I refute an argument or even use that as evidence.
If you read one line further I say "If they were serious about it I do think it would hurt their cause given how easy it is these days to take an event and spin a narrative out of it." Thats me assuming they are as serious as they say and giving my reason why I think it harms more than helps.
You're directly refuting the sentiment of the argument in that very line. "Nobody wants to actually punch a Nazi because they're all skinny punks." Is that not the crux of your argument? Serious question as I'm not trying to misquote or oversimplify.
You've also said that from the punk shows you went to personally you never saw any Nazis, I posted articles about current Nazis infiltrating punk scenes and the historical context of them doing that.
Are you willfully ignorant?
Tell me you've never been to a punk show, without telling me you've never been to a punk show
Ive been to a few punk shows but there were no nazis. Majority of the dudes were pretty skinny.
The meme of punks fighting nazis is the same as every group that age. You walk into a bar wearing the wrong sports jersey and you're getting punched. Ive been punched over not giving someone a lighter. Young males will fight for any reason. Once people stop being 21 and drunk it becomes less action and more talk.
https://www.gq.com/story/punks-and-nazis-oral-history
You have no clue what you're talking about.
50 years ago..
Good now that you understand the historical context, you just might understand what's been happening around the world currently. Maybe even you'll start to understand that going to a few punk rock shows doesn't reflect on the rest of the world at large.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/theres-more-than-we-think-infiltrating-the-australian-neo-nazi-movement/
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/07/23/annoy-them-even-more-german-punks-invade-holiday-island-favoured-by-elites/
Archive of the above here https://archive.is/4grey
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl7yy2zevy2o
And since I'm tired of finding sources to educate you here's a timeline of events
https://counter-currents.com/2023/12/the-punk-rock-roots-of-punching-nazis/
You aren't "finding sources" you are googling something then picking headlines you think are relevant. Don't act like you are trying to educate anyone. I doubt you read a single think you linked.
You're not reading the articles or using context clues. See we can both diminish and dismiss each other.