[microcolonel]

> This sort of sophistry is a mental virus. Say what you mean, stop with the mealy-mouthed "whataboutism" and vague questions.

It seems like you had this line in your clipboard, it is inaccurate, irrelevant, and puzzling in the context of this discussion.

> There are no communists involved in this discussion.

Well, there were communists at the rally, and they came with (thankfully blunt) weapons, ready to brawl. They dressed in black instead of red because that's the trend as of late. Radical communists have been regularly assaulting people at protests and assemblies in America for at least a year.

> We've been through these arguments since the 1940s. Karl Popper's view of the Paradox of Tolerance [1]

I'm not interested in tolerating political violence, but political speech I will.

We need to make ethnonationalism and other seductive ideologies obsolete, instead of suppressing the people who go to them for help.