Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 week agoPersonally I don’t see calling people Russian bots/trolls or accepting harmful behaviour as the only available options.
I don’t think the former is at all productive or helps anything, and the latter is completely unacceptable. But those aren’t our only options when we decide how we want to engage with people we disagree with
and again, fascists are not the only people with whom disagreements happen on lemmy. We’re literally disagreeing right now, if you called me a Russian bot I think that would be silly and unproductive. That’s literally my whole point. Not everyone you disagree with is arguing in bad faith 🤷♂️
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If we keep letting Nazis into the bar it becomes a Nazi bar
This is a good principle to learn as to not accidentally validate people with invalid worldviews.
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m very familiar with and agree with the Nazi bar metaphor. At no point have I advocated letting Lemmy be a Nazi bar. And we don’t exactly have many fascists here compared to other platforms, Lemmy is almost exclusively leftists.
Being kind to your fellow lemmites is not making this platform a Nazi safe haven, it just makes it a social space actually worth spending time in.
davel@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I think you’re wasting your breath at this point. This McCarthyite’s views aren’t going to move an inch, and virtually no one else is going to see this conversation, because this thread is buried under the fold and the post is a day old.