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steltek@lemm.ee 1 year agoNo, those were not radical extremist positions. Anti-Nazi was the default position, it did not start small and grow. For Abolition, that depends on what region you’re referring to but in the US, it was not a radical position. Even prominent slaveholders admitted slavery was bad although it didn’t change their behavior.
I only have the unfortunate experience of encountering MAGA types who revel in using the term as a pejorative. Regardless, hurling personal attacks is unpleasant no matter who’s doing it.
brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Yes, they were radical extremists. Anti-Nazi most certainly was no the default position in Nazi Germany.
You’re universalizing your own experience onto others. As someone who’s background isn’t Western, I loath westerners telling me that I have to abide by their Overton window or else I’m an ‘extremist’
This is what I mean; there exists a huge amount of political thought outside of the extremely narrow, and from my perspective, extremist, USA political environment.
I can guarantee you from repeated personal experience that political ‘moderates’ hurl personal attacks with the best of them.