Richard Spencer punched in the face at protest

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[JerryArkansas]

Good

[Chief Justice Keef]

This is starting to become a meme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN85nxWm06w
https://twitter.com/Jacqueimo/status/822644112218353664
https://twitter.com/luvpox/status/822639937069715458
https://twitter.com/prttybadtweeter/status/822620848897069056
https://twitter.com/banditelli/status/822619032901873665

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

stupid and undemocratic.

i detest the black block....they are helping those guys looking like victims.

No they aren't. It is literally not possible to turn that Devil into a victim. No one could ever possibly like him or think of him as good or trying to do good in any sense.

[Deblano]

This is a classic example of "I don't approve, but I sure did enjoy".

[The_Doctor]

I certainly approve of this. Punching open white supremacists like Spencer wouldn't be an activity I would be too terribly unhappy about.

Edit: edited for clarity.

[Brittain33]

stupid and undemocratic.

If the U.S. voted on punching Spencer first, it would have been ok?

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

^Protestor punching noted Alt Right speaker Richard Spencer at an anti-Trump Protest. Colorized, 1944

[Modernity has failed us]

stupid and undemocratic.

Shut the fyck up. Nazis don't believe in democracy to begin with. They don't get to hide behind it when they (rightfully) get socked in the face.

[EnglishPete]

Frankly I think it was extremely foolish of Spencer to go wandering around an area which had a large number of anarchist and other far leftist protesters. Being surprised and outraged that one of these people got violent is like being outraged at a bear sh**tting in the woods. Its just their nature.

Remember extreme left violence was one of the main reasons for the Nazis coming to power in Germany.  People often wonder how an educated and cultured nation like the Germans could vote for a group af anti-semitic cranks like the nazi party. Well one of the most important and indeed crucial reasons was far left violence in Weimar Germany. Communists and other far leftists were engaged in all kinds of street violence and attacks on their political opponents. People looked at the Soviet Union and naturally reacted in terror at the prospect of living under Communist rule. Crucially the German authorities failed to control this violence. Some people saw the Nazis responding to the communists with their own street violence and their promises to crack down on the reds and those votes made the crucial difference for Hitler and enabled him to come to power.

It wasn't obvious until after they came to power and in particular during the war that the nazis were just as bad as the communists, but by then it was too late. If it hadn't been for far left violence and the Weimar authorities failure to control it then World War Two and all its horrors could have been avoided.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Fyck off Ernst Nolte, I thought you were dead? In fact I thought you dying was one of the few good things to happen in 2016...

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Fyck off Ernst Nolte, I thought you were dead? In fact I thought you dying was one of the few good things to happen in 2016...

Ernst Nolte was alive until last year?!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Fyck off Ernst Nolte, I thought you were dead? In fact I thought you dying was one of the few good things to happen in 2016...

Ernst Nolte was alive until last year?!

Indeed yes. Why do only the good die young?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh my God if you google his name fifth item down is an obit on Gilad Atzmon's site (not clicking on that!) urgh wtf google stop it.

[EnglishPete]

It wasn't obvious until after they came to power and in particular during the war that the nazis were just as bad as the communists, but by then it was too late.

And for those who might respond to this point by saying 'OMG how can you say that? Surely it was always clear that the nazis were just as bad, if not worse, than the communists'. I would point out the example of the South Africa-Mozambique border in the 1980s. At that time you had a stream of illegal immigrants crossing from communist Mozambique to Apartheid South Africa to look for a better life.

Think about that for a second. Black people were willing to sneak through the barbed wire border fence, cross Kruger National Park which is inhabited by lions, elephants, hyenas and other dangerous as  animals. They were willing to take those risks because they wanted a better life living as illegal immigrants in a country that was ruled by apartheid. That's how bad communism is.

That's why some voters in Germany were willing to make desperate choices in a situation where they thought that the authorities had lost control of this threat. The result was the deaths of 50 million people in World war Two. That's a major reason (though not the only reason) why its so vitally important for the government to keep these far leftist thugs in check.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Oh my God if you google his name fifth item down is an obit on Gilad Atzmon's site (not clicking on that!) urgh wtf google stop it.

Ah, yes, the Jew who's too anti-Semitic for non-Jewish anti-Semites.

[dead0man]

are we supposed to know who this man is?  Maybe he deserved to be punched, I don't know, but the person punching him is a pussy.  Blind side punching out of nowhere is for cowards.  Just like waiting until there are protests to go out and break windows and knock over trash cans.

Speaking of trash cans...did you see the video of the guy get beat up by a trashcan?  very funny stuff.  He knocks it over and tries to roll it, but the sign or whatever attached to the side of came half off as it rolled and totally punched him in the face and the dude tried to walk off all cool like, hoping nobody saw it.  The camera saw it jerkass.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Who care. It's not like he wouldn't be engaged in the same infantile behavior had he any followers.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

stupid and undemocratic.

i detest the black block....they are helping those guys looking like victims.

Black block?

[Santander]

Wow. You all rightfully criticized BRTD for celebrating violence against a diplomat, and here you are celebrating the assault of a non-violent person.

[ApatheticAustrian]

stupid and undemocratic.

Shut the fyck up. Nazis don't believe in democracy to begin with. They don't get to hide behind it when they (rightfully) get socked in the face.

i agree that democracy should be able to defend itself, imho punching nazi leaders nearly never helps anyone. my own country has a neo-nazi history since 1955....established party structures directly connected to the real nazis and calling nazis nazis didn't cost them one single vote.

those people are on the rise globally and while i don't know how stopping them coule work atm....punching their leaders isn't a solution. tougher laws on the other hand...but the free speech in the US collides with that goal.

btw....kudos to bill mitchell:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/822808249980375040

[ApatheticAustrian]

stupid and undemocratic.

i detest the black block....they are helping those guys looking like victims.

Black block?

ignore the k...germanism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc

[ApatheticAustrian]

stupid and undemocratic.

If the U.S. voted on punching Spencer first, it would have been ok?

in a literal way, sure......

i think taking justice into your own hands undermines our system....like what SIS/neo-altright-scum are wishing for.

[Modernity has failed us]

Who care. It's not like he wouldn't be engaged in the same infantile behavior had he any followers.

Yeah, if only this guy had followers.

PS--he's the guy who coined the term "alt-right" so...he's a pretty big deal.

[Antonio the Sixth]

As good as it might feel, this is wrong.