EDIT: no, I don't sympathize with nazis (neither I sympathize with those who call everyone nazi when they're losing an argument ;)
neither I sympathize with those who call everyone nazi when they're losing an argument ;)
Oh hey, look, it's the same thought terminating argument that the alt-right uses to whitewash Nazis!
Hey look its the same thought terminating argument tankies use when they want to bring about purges for "wrong think".
It's so cute when one of you is obviously just pulling out whatever scary Orwell words you remember from 8th grade english class
If the 'thing you dont agree' with is hate speech or shit promotting violence for example that's the only sane option you have lol
Many instances have shit like hexbear federated, but have explicit rules on the side saying "no tankie shit". make it make sense.
Funny how one instance is the one everyone wants to defederate from.
Currently. Of course in the past it was exploding heads for being Nazis, Lemmygrad for being insufferable tankies, then Burggit for lolicon, now hexbear for being insufferable tankies.
Heck I think Lemmygrad is more tolerable than Hexbear, by a lot.
Do they allow downvotes? Hexbear doesn't which means everything they disagree with gets a reply with a handful of large emoji.
When everyone you meet is an asshole, you are probably the real asshole.
Funny how this works with social media as well.
Fascists and child porn spammers may have rights somewhere, but not in my world.
True but.
It reminds me of this discussion I had on Reddit with a person who said it was okay to punch a Nazi, just like that. Walk up to them l, punch.
I start with that Nazi's don't really exist, and if someone has intolerant ideas them maybe it's better to talk them out of those ideas instead of reinforcing them.
This discussion took a few messages until it ended with this person calling me a Nazi and threateni to punch me if he ever saw me, just and only because o disagreed with unjustified violence against intolerant people
This person was just as intolerant as a Nazi themselves and didn't even realize it.
This person was just as intolerant as a Nazi themselves and didn’t even realize it.
No they weren't, this is what Popper defines as intolerance of the second degree. Taken from the German wiki page because this aspect is better explained there than in the English version (translated with deepl):
In intolerant people, Popper distinguished two categories:
intolerance of the first degree: intolerant of a person's customs because they are foreign.
intolerance of the second degree: intolerant of a person's customs because they are intolerant and dangerous.
Popper therefore rejected universal tolerance:
"Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: unrestricted tolerance leads with necessity to the disappearance of tolerance. For if we extend unrestricted tolerance even to the intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant social order against the onslaughts of intolerance, then the tolerant will be destroyed and tolerance with them."
However, since we as human beings are not capable of knowing the true motives of our counterparts, a fundamental, unsolvable problem now arises: It is difficult for an outsider to distinguish whether a person who expresses intolerance belongs to the first or second degree.
In other words the intolerance against Nazis is justified because they are the ones being intolerant in the first place, and sometimes this is the only way to fight them on that.
I'll grant that this is disregarding your premise of Nazis not existing, but to be quite honest if I may, that's a pretty stupid premise. The Nazis did exist, they were the poster child for intolerance of the first degree, and their ideology is far from being as dead as they are.
You ever convert a Nazi with words? You certainly haven't convinced me that a Nazi puncher and a Nazi are the same.