And as for the apoligia from academe published by the WaPo, it’s just the same bullshit about how breaking heads in the names of righteousness is a good thing that’s been used to market the ideology of every authoritarian tyranny or terror movement to the gullible ever.
Antifascists argue that after the horrors of chattel slavery and the Holocaust, physical violence against white supremacists is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective.
Yeah, same kind of “reasoning” used by lynch mobs and terrorist organizations throughout history.
We should not, they argue, abstractly assess the ethical status of violence in the absence of the values and context behind it.
Bullshit. Purest evil propagandist bullshit. Every blood drenched mass-murdering tyranny of the 20th Century propounded this facile eyewash. The blood-drenched tyrannies that purported to be leftist were particularly fond of it, but it was and is at the core of Nazi ideology as well. And it’s the same facile eyewash that concealed mass graves. It’s the belief system that informed the acts of every White Citizens Council and Sovereignty Commission in the south as they acted as the intelligence arm of the local Klans. It’s the common thread linking Hitler to Stalin and Pinochet to Castro.
The ends never justify the means because the end you achieve is necessarily the product of the means you use to achieve it, not what you say your intended end was.