{"id":12648,"date":"2018-09-29T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=12648"},"modified":"2018-09-29T23:59:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T15:59:39","slug":"punching-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/09\/29\/punching-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"Punching nazis is probably good, but never be gleeful about violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was a period of time where people on Twitter seemed very gleeful about punching Nazis, and the idea of punching Nazis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I think Nazis are trash. But I&#8217;m not sure punching them is the best approach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To take it a step further, if I were a Nazi (I&#8217;m not), I would be absolutely certain to use any Nazi-punching videos and rhetoric as a part of my recruitment strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is my problem with people who advocate for violence. Have you experienced violence? Have you ever actually maimed anybody, killed anybody yourself? If you haven\u2019t, then please stop *advocating* blindly for violence because you have no idea what demons you are summoning<\/p>&mdash; visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1087577668441190401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a period of time where people on Twitter seemed very gleeful about punching Nazis, and the idea of punching Nazis.&nbsp; Now, I think Nazis are trash. But I&#8217;m not sure punching them is the best approach.&nbsp; To take it a step further, if I were a Nazi (I&#8217;m&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[602],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-12648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-assholes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3i0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}