re: Video of Richard Spencer being sucker punched during interview

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Not from me. The ideology is supremely flawed as has been proven multiple times in history.

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I agreed it's flawed, but it's most glaring flaw is its propensity to result in authoritarianism. I don't think fighting authoritarianism with authoritarianism is the solution.

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It will be defeated in a democratic country like the US.

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Yes, as it should; through the the freedom-loving process that exists.

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Hell the socialist leaning countries in the EU are experiencing a severe backlash of their own.

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Maybe, but I can't help but wonder how accurate of a picture we are getting. Again, I think it's a poor view, and even poorer in our large and diverse country, BUT the asymmetry of the information lends itself to falling into the representative heuristic. We believe the problems are more prevailing than in reality. Just like as crime drop, the coverage of crime increased, so people generally believed it increased as a result.

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The violence and rhetoric is coming from a movement that is on the ropes.

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Good. But let's not fight violence with violence.

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That's what anything does when its survival is in jeopardy. The more they react this way the more it tells me the country wants to move back to its center and find equilibrium.

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And that's all great. And we cannot tolerate violence, but in a country that value freedom, if a view is absent that violence that we are compelled to at least allow it; although we can criticize it and argue against it relentlessly.