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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
Ignore these animals and try to rationalize with them at your own peril.
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It's interesting to compare the reaction to the violence in Charlottesville with the reaction to the attacks in Barcelona.
Many say we cannot turn the cameras away from neo-Nazis. We have to publicize the marches, confront them publicly, and capture and any violence that takes place at them. And we can't kid ourselves we're only dealing with tiny group of people - neo-Nazis represent a far larger population of people who may not take to the streets but who sympathize with their agenda.
However, we need to stop publicizing the deaths at the hands of jihadis. It only plays into their agenda. These are rogue actors with no support in their broader community. Let the police deal with it and get on with our lives.
Strange that two violently reactionary movements with so many similarities -
their hatred of modernity, contempt for liberalism, naked misogyny (the knife-wielding attacker in Turku targeted women) - should be treated so differently.