Editorial: Confronting racism and white supremacy

To punch or not to punch? That is the question. 
Or, at least, it seems to be, in the whirlpool (cesspool?) of online debate over how to confront neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Is it excusable to meet ideas premised upon violence with fists and batons?
In a civilized society, of course not. Violence begets violence, no matter how theoretically satisfying it might be. In an Ottawa courtroom on Thursday, though, the other way of confronting and countering extremism was on di