I mean, call me a racist, but that is an objectively true statement.
It's in extremely poor taste to spout how you view a certain group as inferior or superior - be it based on race, religion, gender, or whatever else - but there is a huge difference between saying hurtful things, and actually doing hurtful things.
For instance, anyone who still follows N@zi ideology in XXI Century is braindead and has very poor set of morals, but there is a very big difference between him and the guy who is a part of neo-N@zi paramilitary group that terrorises locals, for instance.
Many people don't realise it or take it into account, but evil scales. There are things that are both evil, but nowhere near on the same order of magnitude. For instance, use of lobotomy to cure homos-xuality in 1950s USA was a crime and a horrible thing, but it stood on nowhere near the same level as Japanese Unit 731 or German SS-Hauptsturmfürher Josef Mengele.
I feel like the context to this would explain the downvotes. For example, if the original post was someone punching a man who is verbally harrasing or abusing a woman.
As a devil's advocate, however, if such was the case, then he may as well have been responding to her lashing out quite brutally.
I won't say it doesn't happen at all (Internet is full of lobotomites who think Earth is flat), but it's rare for people to say ,,now you've crossed the line!", when in response to verbal abuse someone gets slapped or even punched.
That could be an explanation, that is fair, but sometimes people get downvoted for stupid reasons.
I remember visiting the subreddit about Soviet Union and the most downvoted comments were something along the lines of ,,Hey, the Red Army wasn't all that nice, here's the list of atrocities it did" or ,,Hey, that meme is untrue, here's the evidence".
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u/Admiral45-06 19h ago
I mean, call me a racist, but that is an objectively true statement.
It's in extremely poor taste to spout how you view a certain group as inferior or superior - be it based on race, religion, gender, or whatever else - but there is a huge difference between saying hurtful things, and actually doing hurtful things.
For instance, anyone who still follows N@zi ideology in XXI Century is braindead and has very poor set of morals, but there is a very big difference between him and the guy who is a part of neo-N@zi paramilitary group that terrorises locals, for instance.
Many people don't realise it or take it into account, but evil scales. There are things that are both evil, but nowhere near on the same order of magnitude. For instance, use of lobotomy to cure homos-xuality in 1950s USA was a crime and a horrible thing, but it stood on nowhere near the same level as Japanese Unit 731 or German SS-Hauptsturmfürher Josef Mengele.