And it's all well and good to say, well be the bigger person, don't do to them what they are trying to do to you. But guess what, being the bigger person isn't going to change anything.
Really. Tell that to Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu....
Moral integrity is
critical to activism.
And again, even from a practical perspective, what you're suggesting will not work. Thugs cannot restrain thugs. In fact, what you suggest plays into their hands. You're eroding the rule of law and the moral standing of society as a whole, which has largely kept these hate groups in check for decades.
Everyone ignored the Nazi's under Hitler til they gained enough support and power to conquer Europe.
While I'm not an expert on Weimar Germany, I'm quite certain that's not what happened.
Long story short: The Nazis rose on a wave of populism, in the wake of social, economic and political uncertainty caused by the Great Depression, reparations, and throwing a democracy at a nation with a long history of autocracy, militarism and warfare. Many of their early adversaries were weak (Poland), ill prepared (France), or welcoming (Austria). Others hesitated in the foolish hopes, encouraged by Nazi sympathizers, that Germany would be satisfied with its early conquests.
I see no indication that allowing police to beat up Nazis would have, in any way shape or form, stopped the Nazi rise to power.
This is not a binary choice -- "do nothing" or "unlawfully beat them up." The better method is to maintain one's moral standing, shine a light on their hatred and bigotry, drop the hammer when they do violate the law, and not give them any more excuses to play the persecuted victim.
When a normal white person is afraid of being pulled over because the cops may think they are a Nazi, because they share the skin tone of a Nazi, I bet some things are going to get changed.
That doesn't even make sense.
77% of the US is white. You're suggesting that police officers treat 250 million Americans as though they are criminals. I assure you, that would change things -- but in a way that would be an utter disaster for the nation.
Encouraging police to act like thugs is the exact opposite of what we need.
It's not a pretty solution, but it's the Karmic solution.
What you're suggesting is not "karma," it's not justice, and it's not going to work.
This is just anger, which presumes that retribution will produce the outcome you want. It won't. It will produce the opposite. It will further damage the rule of law; it will further damage trust in the police; it will erode due process; it will trash the moral standing of the nation; it will turn them into martyrs; it will prove true their claims that the state and nation is unfair.
