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by mansion7 1110 days ago
It's the very peculiar, very strenuous insistence that children watch, and participate, as men cavort in women's clothes in a sexually charged manner.

Followed by the vilification of people with quite reasonable concerns as "transphobes" (a fireable, deplatformable, censorable offense) and "Nazis" (who have been deemed acceptable targets of unprovoked violence).

But for that, most Americans would go back to not caring. Regrettably, some don't understand the concept of boundaries or restraint, or think it doesn't apply to them. Possibly because we have many in the media/entertainment industry, government, and education system telling them that they're right.

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What?

You're implying a lot of things here, so I'm struggling to follow all of them, but I find it especially odd to suggest that being anti-Nazi is somehow unfair to them or otherwise unprovoked. I can think of at least one rather conspicuous example of a time when Nazis "started it," so to speak. Some of my relatives didn't make it out of that one.

I can tell you're struggling, so I'll try to make it even simpler.

Normal beliefs (kids don't belong in sexually charged drag shows) are being tagged as "Nazi".

Certain factions have deemed it acceptable to commit unprovoked violence against anyone labeled thusly, accurate or no.

Do you deny this, or not understand? If so, you will continue to struggle in confusion, because it's an incredibly clear concept and phenomena and harder to make much simpler than that.

Your comment read better when it was just ‘What?’

I’d suggest just moving on - a look at comment history has a couple of similar comments.

Yeah, you weren't kidding about their comment history. A looooot of talk about Nazis and their ilk. (Something something doth protest too much?)

Noted on the brevity though, lol. I really gotta stop engaging these types in any serious capacity and save myself the blood pressure spike.

You say family members died because of Nazis, then trivialize actual Nazism by insinuating that I may be one, because I dislike people casually using that term!

It sounds as though blood pressure medication isn't the only type of medication you may require.

Nazis should be deemed acceptable targets of unprovoked violence — but the least they should go to prison for that. It’s not a free speech violation when the whole ideology is incompatible with society.