The latest culprit is Steven Shaviro, an English professor at Wayne State, who posted on Facebook his view that it would be better to kill bigoted speakers rather than simply protest them, offering this analogy:
The exemplary historical figure in this regard is Sholem Schwarzbard, who assassinated the anti-Semitic butcher Symon Petliura, rather than trying to shout him down. Remember that Schwarzbard was acquitted by a jury, which found his action justified.
The idiot right (like the site linked above) glossed this bizarre post as Shaviro advocating murder "for those he disagreed with," but as the analogy with Schwarzbard suggests, "disagreement" is not sufficient: after all, he murdered someone who was a butcher of Jews in Ukraine. What's slightly nuts about Shaviro's post is analogizing mass murder to the expression of racist views: speech and action aren't the same, despite the best efforts of many folks to confuse the two. (Being an English professor, Shaviro throws in "transphobic" views to the list of views that warrant murder!) Anyone who decides to kill a bigot will not be acquitted. So Shaviro's post is idiotic and ignorant on many levels.
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