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I don't think it's as simple as distance, though, especially when there are people who are hostile to you that won't give you that distance in the first place. I think the value of the question A! asks about how we deal with people we don't like is that it makes people think more critically about what the potential costs of utopia (there are no nazis, everyone's an anarchist) might be, and what life looks like if we don't live in that kind of utopia. If we're not willing or can't actually destroy people we disagree with, why have petty street battles with chuds made up so much of anarchist praxis over the last four years? At the same time I don't think the answer to this question means you should necessarily leave the chuds alone or start doing a YouTube series with self-described reactionaries with bad haircuts. It's more of an invitation to think critically and more creatively about how you relate to people you don't like, even if that might involve a bat to the head sometimes.