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!
I think they're mainly quick to defederate because they don't want to burn out their mods.
Conflict and drama means lots of work for them so I can see it being an easy choice. Personally I'm happy my instance isn't too trigger happy with it
Forreal your instance might be the one I'm most confused by, you've got like a 50/50 split of chill people who are okay with conversation and people who drop slurs and reply to any attempt at engagement in memes and 
gotcha one-liners.
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
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.
Go back to whichever 14 year old infested, fake communist, edgelord hideout you crawled out of.
Lemmy.ml should be sent to purgatory.
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.
No offense but this is kind of what happens in real life too. Nazi shows up to local bar. Barman or owner doesn't throw them out. Eventually they invite their friends. It winds up being known a Nazi bar. People who don't want to associate with Nazis no longer visit the bar. This is why intolerance of the intolerant is a thing.
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?
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.