EDIT: no, I don't sympathize with nazis (neither I sympathize with those who call everyone nazi when they're losing an argument ;)
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
Lemmy.ml should be sent to purgatory.
I'm so glad that the comments have (mostly) finally unified in agreement that defederating Nazis and other hideous people is the right move.
I'm not up to date on the drama. Who got defeded?
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.
You ever convert a Nazi with words? You certainly haven't convinced me that a Nazi puncher and a Nazi are the same.
Defederating brigaders and trolls is necessary to maintain a healthy community. If your instance is defederated from all major instances, perhaps you should look examine what sort of company you keep.
Funny how one instance is the one everyone wants to defederate from.
When everyone you meet is an asshole, you are probably the real asshole.
Funny how this works with social media as well.
It's intriguing how everyone that views themselves as moderates/liberals forget (or are unacquainted with it) about the paradox of tolerance.
Tolerance implies everyone has a right to express their ideas and you want that. You want everything out in the open, so you can pick at it, dismantle it and render it pitiful, ridiculous and useless.
You want the intolerant crying out loud that you are intolerant as that means you are doing the right thing. The intolerant want silence, forced, while the tolerant want noise, anger, tension.
Remember that anything worthwhile needs to be fought for. Don't regret being vocal and harsh towards intolerance.
Go back to whichever 14 year old infested, fake communist, edgelord hideout you crawled out of.
You can't tolerate nazis or tankies. Bad reasoning altogether. Look at the state the USA is in right now because we decided to tolerate fascists.