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"Stochastic" terrorism is not the same as actual terrorism, if only because you don't actually know that it's stochastic terrorism. Half of the comments on lemmy since ck died could be considered stochastic terrorism. People been saying that it's ok to kill nazis for years, but everyone has a different idea of what a nazi looks like. Just a matter of time until some nut decides someone is a Nazi and kills them. Stochastic terrorism.
When people call themselves Nazis, you don't have to guess.
When people dehumanize others, you don't have to guess.
Acting intolerant loses any tolerance given from others.
It's that simple.
You can always shut up about being a bigot. When you blame minorities for things billionaires are doing, you don't deserve empathy.
Who is calling themself a Nazi?
Who is dehumanizing who? Calling people a Nazi is dehumanizing. Not saying actual Nazis don't deserve it, but the term gets thrown around a lot, and when the message is also that Nazis should be killed, it's stochastic terrorism because somebody might act because of misunderstanding or because they are crazy. Also anyone who is intolerant thinks they aren't, or they justify their intolerance because they perceive their enemies to be intolerant or immoral or evil.
Who are some nazis that should die? Trump? Anyone who voted for him? Anyone who said something homophobic or transphobic? How do YOU identify a nazi?
There are people who see no problem with calling themselves Nazis.
And when you have any of the shit-spewing right-wing grifters, like Kirk, Shapiro, Crowder, Prager, literally getting rich off spreading hate, I feel no need to defend them when they become target of their own fruit.
How else will they be stopped? They feel no remorse when 'others' die. And a LOT of people died, even in the same day as Kirk, yet those people don't give a shit.
Why should I give a shit about such people?
And where do I draw the line? Again: when you start going public with hate against minorities, you are not deserving any tolerance.