Why Vague Labels Shouldn't Authorize Violence

1. Many Americans are fascists
2. Fascists are an acceptable target for political violence
3. Political violence in America is morally unacceptable (at the current time)

I thought about this while following the Twitter spat between Democratic hopeful Gavin Newsom and Trump advisor Stephen Miller. Newsom called Miller fascist; Miller accused this of being a call to violence which placed "a target" on him.

Miller is hardly sympathetic here - he's called people fascist himself in the past, and later suggested Newsom should be arrested for his speech (if only there were a word to describe the sort of person who supports that kind of thing…)

Still, I found myself able to see things from both perspectives.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/fascism-cant-mean-both-a-specific