• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That’s an imperfect analogy

    Of course it’s imperfect. It was dumbed down for you to be able to understand it. Unsuccessfully, alas.

    It’s more like defending yourself

    No it’s not. Saying that everyone being kicked in the head should stop complaining about the assault and in stead thank the assailants for not being the other, worse, assailants is NOT defending anyone.

    You may still get stabbed

    Yeah, that’s the other thing I didn’t cover: sometimes the kicking assailants will just straight up let you be stabbed anyway even if you elected enough of them.

    They’re being paid much more by the steel toe boot association and the combat knife manufacturers than anyone trying to make the assaults stop, after all…

    you have a better chance of stopping the attacker than doing nothing

    Protesting inaction in the face of fascism isn’t nothing.

    Advocating for the rotten status quo that allowed the rise of fascism, though? THAT’S doing nothing.

    Going so far as shaming dissenting opinions, lumping everyone who’s not satisfied with negative peace (the absence of disorder) in with the fascists? That’s WORSE than doing nothing.