Conservatives Upset 'The Good Fight' Wants You To Punch Nazis

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Conservatives Upset ‘The Good Fight’ Wants You To Punch Nazis
A monologue on the TV drama has conservatives claiming CBS was “inciting violence” against Nazis.
By Andy Campbell


CBS’ “The Good Fight,” a fictional television program, said on its show last week that it’s OK to punch a Nazi from time to time ― but for conservative media types and white supremacists alike, the message constituted incitement against people with legitimate “political opinions.”

On April 10, the show aired an episode called “The One Where a Nazi Gets Punched,” during which character Jay DiPersia (played by Nyambi Nyambi) turns to the camera and delivers a monologue about punching Nazis. At points, the infamous clip of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting punched during a TV interview flashes on screen.

“Is it all right to hit a Nazi unprovoked?” Jay asks the audience. “I was always taught never to throw the first punch, never to instigate. Defend, but don’t attack. But then I saw a video of the white nationalist Richard Spencer being punched in the face during an interview. I realized Spencer was in a pressed suit, wearing a tie, being interviewed like his opinion mattered — like it should be considered part of the conversation ... It’s time to punch a few Nazis.”

Vulture called the monologue a “deep breath of fresh mountain air.” It could also have been described as a near-tired play on an old meme ― “punch Nazis” has been a pop culture sensation since at least “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

Instead, the monologue was characterized by conservatives as network TV “inciting violence” against a “political” group.

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[Gothmog]

1. Trump supporters are all idiots

[gratuitous]

2. They're upset about a TV show character "inciting" violence

But the President doing it elicits nary a peep from that quarter.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Man, what the fuck happened to this country where the GOPers love Russia and Nazis?

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. Russia hasn't been Communist in nearly 30 years; the GOP may as well be a white nationalist party

[mercuryblues]

4. If you are upset over

people saying it isok to punch a Nazi, you just might be a Nazi.

[DBoon]

5. How many US soldiers died fighting real Nazis?

Conservatives bring shame on our country

[sarge43]

6. "Punch a Nazi" has been a go-to ever since Captain America debuted in March 1941 n/t

[hunter]

11. "Captain America was punching Nazis in 1941. Here's why that was so daring."

If there’s one superhero character whose rise might be most tied to the events of World War II, it is Captain America, who emerged from the minds of legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and sprung forth from an iconic 1941 debut cover on which Cap smacks Hitler right in the kisser.

--more--

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/17/capatain-america-comics-punching-nazis/

Article, with pictures.

Also, this machine kills fascists...

[snort]

7. Why punch a Nazi

when a softball bat is more effective and easier on the hands?

[hughee99]

8. It is not "inciting violence" as long as I don't like the target

Of that violence!

[Generic Other]

9. Imagine our modern media reporting on the rise of the Nazi party

The perpetrators of the Munich beerhall putsch would be invited to defend their antisemitism and nationalism on the talk shows. They would be applauded for talking down to, shouting over, and aggressively bullying any opposition voices allowed airtime. They would strut and salute each other like drunk penguins. And Germans would have eaten it up like it was the beginning of a 1000 year reign.

[Mc Mike]

10. Wuxtry wuxtry: Special schutzstaffel snowflakes seek safe spaces!

Read all about it.

[Initech]

12. Where is Aldo Raine when you need him?

[DontBooVote]

13. Hey lurking nazis, you deserve a worse fate than a punch in the face.

[CTAtheist]

15. We should never condone inciting violence against political groups

But we should definitely punch nazis as often as humanly possible.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Maybe we should just say "sock a snowflake"....

kind of sounds like the same thing.

[Blue_Tires]

17. It's funny only because the Repubs *still* jack off to the WWII generation

Patton, VE Day, and all the tens of thousands of movies and TV shows made about it since then... Guess they must have forgotten who the enemy was?