This whole 'there's no moral equivalency' thing is hard to understand. These NAZI's are not the NAZI's of the 1930's and 40's, they haven't actually done much of anything when looked at in context, certainly not as much as ISIS for example, are these modern NAZI's more of a threat than ISIS? Have they done more damage? So what exactly does no moral equivalency mean? Are these NAZI's already as bad as Hitler's NAZI's for wanting to be like them, or thinking they do, or because they could become them when we already have others behaving in much worse ways elsewhere? It's not normal to compare the behavior of one group to the behaviors of others to say who was worse? We measure most things against others. It sounds like a cop out designed to prevent even debating the subject, and maybe that's the way it needs to be, idk.
So this group that i hadnt heard of before this week, antifa, are these the new heroes of equality and democracy? Are these the vigilantes we need now, enough that we will cheer them on and give them license to fight for us in the future? Here's a question, how many of them are they same sort of people who will shout down anyone they disagree with at a university? Or cheer when someone blows up a bus in Israel, or cheer when a cop gets ambushed and murdered? How many of them are Marxists or Communists? Or when they carry a certain flag, should we not take them as seriously as the NAZI's carrying their own flags? Maybe when they do it it's just cute, i mean, what harm could come of that? Are these really the good people you want to empower with defending your principles? Are we not allowed to ask those questions simply because the NAZI's were, maybe are and could be so terrible again? Was it wrong to criticize Stalin for the deaths of millions because he lead Russia while it fought off the NAZI's while they killed millions more? As I learned this week antifa isn't really new, its as old as the NAZI's, but then they were actually fighting a widespread political movement, not a few morons under sheets or carrying NAZI flags.
At least some of the people from the 'good' side are as extreme as those on the 'bad' side, the problem may end up being that we already give those 'good' people too much leeway to decide where we are supposed going as a society, we may realize at some point that their idea of a perfect world may not be ours. After all the right statues come down what will they target next, and are you going to then tell them that they are going to far, will you have the courage? If they label you as the next racist or bigot, or even NAZI, what then? There will not be a level of acceptable progression to them, there will just be the next target. I dont much care about statues either, knock em all down, lee was a slave owner, he was also a patriot of the wrong 'country', fighting for the wrong things, even by those standards. So do away with all of it, but im not sure im allowed to mention this as it's in the vein of "moral equivalency", but even the people who fought against slavery, and campaigned against it, were mostly still racists. So how not racist enough did you have to be to keep your statue? Idk, but I suppose antifa or some other good folks, like those at BLM will tell us, when they arent cheering on cop killers.
Anyway, NAZI's horrible, KKK horrible, much less horrible people may still not be good people, and they may not be the sort you want to empower to either protect or limit yours or anyone else's freedoms. I dont have any answers, at least not as sure of them as some of you seem to be of yours, maybe considering the president, this is the only option, but lets not pretend the people who showed up to fight off the NAZI's were just local residents who saw them and reacted, just good people doing a good deed, no, antifa is a far left political organization that sees itself as outside the law, support that if you think you must.
"Antifa believes it is pursuing the opposite of authoritarianism. Many of its activists oppose the very notion of a centralized state. But in the name of protecting the vulnerable, antifascists have granted themselves the authority to decide which Americans may publicly assemble and which may not."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/But i dont think i can.