we get to decide our principles, not our oppressors saying "since we do this to you, you can't do it back or else you're ~just like us~"
Veiled death threats and intimidating someones family over their job are not 'okay'.
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their logic doesn't apply when THEY are the ones at risk of stochastic terrorism - suddenly we're rushed out of the marketplace of ideas when it was perfectly fine to use inflammatory rhetoric against minorities with deadly results
but once again: don't initiate violence! only use it in self-defense!
the fact that THEY don't hold those principles is not a casus belli to abandon your own, jfc