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 recently, though, the other way of confronting and countering extremism was on display, in the thoughtful