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• davel@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Second: You seem to be conflating listening to ideas with supporting them.

  We’ve already heard more than enough Zionist & fascist ideas.

  Third: Blocking places with bad ideas doesn’t silence the people there or eliminate their ideas. It contributes to their isolation and echo chamber. Often more then yours. You in fact end up helping make them worse. Which of course is worse for everyone.

  This echo chamber obsession is silly.

  • The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media
  • Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”

   
  Online discourse isn’t going to defeat fascism. Fascism isn’t an ideology. It’s capitalist crisis management. It’s capitalism in decay.

  Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt – it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
  — Tommy Douglas

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