If Spencer had a custard pie thrown at his face rather than a punch, then that would I think that would have been a lot more effective.
If the aim is to discredit the ideas then it seems better to make people like Spencer and Milo look ridiculous rather than punch them. We need to engineer the situation so that these people are looking like fringe lunatics who deserve derision, not sympathy or support.
Bit late for that to work well with Trump, although a cream pie to the face is unlikely to make things much worse.
None of this really does a lot to address liberal objections regarding 'free market of ideas' and all that kind of thing still aren't met, but most people aren't liberals so I don't expect that to hold much sway.
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Date: 2017-02-12 12:32 pm (UTC)If the aim is to discredit the ideas then it seems better to make people like Spencer and Milo look ridiculous rather than punch them. We need to engineer the situation so that these people are looking like fringe lunatics who deserve derision, not sympathy or support.
Bit late for that to work well with Trump, although a cream pie to the face is unlikely to make things much worse.
None of this really does a lot to address liberal objections regarding 'free market of ideas' and all that kind of thing still aren't met, but most people aren't liberals so I don't expect that to hold much sway.