Tl,dr: Today, someone made a post about the game Wolfenstein with the title "Nazis should be shot". People got up in arms, post got deleted, now the centrists agree that the left extremists went too far.

The post in question, translated by me:

Title: Since when has it become normal to openly call for violence?

It's honestly disturbing, how normalised it has become on reddit to ask for humas to be shot in the head. Regardless of where you stand: since when has this become an acceptabke statement?

What really maes me angry is not just the call for violence, but the intellectual hypocrisy behind it.

On one hand, people preach morals, humanism, "never again", peace and historical responsibility. On the other, the dehumanize humans and discuss their killing as a legitimate option. That's not a moral viewpoint, that's factually paradox!

Instead of engaging with the actual point, that calls for violence are always generally problematic, they just evade it. They use historical comparisons with completely different context, extreme scenarios or rethorical tricks. "Violence is not the solution" becomes "You want to stop extremists with nice words". That's not an argument, that is an intentional misrepresentation.

Even more absurd, when past catastrophes are used as justification to use violence today: "We should have been far more strict with them, far earlier" is used as a moral carte blanche to normalize similar thinking patterns today. History doesn't teach that fantasies of violence are legitimate, butn that they lead to Dehumanization.

And that's the problem: He who denies others the right to exist, adapts exactly the thinking pattern he allegedly fights against.

What also annoys me is the aggressive evasion of the topic. They don't argue, but label. They don't discuss, but accuse. They don't differentiate, but load it up morally.

Downvotes do not replace arguments. Historical analogies don't replace logic. And emotion does not replace reason.

I understand that political topics are emotional. But emotion doesn't justify intellectual impurity.

I don't care about party politics. It's about the principle: if we normalize violence as a legitimate answer - even rethorically, then we move the goalposts in a direction we were trying to avoid.

If the simple sentence "Wishing death upon humans is wrong" has become naive, well, then maybe we shouldn't talk about naivete, but how low our discussion culture has fallen.

I'm not angry about an opinion. I'm angry at the illiogical, the ignorance of their own inconsistency and this self-righteous escalatory thinking.

Violence is violence, even if you believe to be on the morally right side.

As you guessed it, the vast majority of replies agrees.

Unfortunately, I can't answer that post personally, as I have been banned from reddit for saying "trans women are women".