There is no black and white in settler colonialism
In Germany, after national socialism, we have very strict rules on how you are allowed to talk about it, because there were unfortunately a lot of people still denying it or not believing it.
True. But a lot of people on the whole Fediverse seem to be very narrow-minded black-and-white thinkers. In their logic, following the law in Germany is equivalent to following direct orders from the Gestapo. Maybe you just don’t want to get arrested and put in jail for running a niche community on the internet, but that’s not even an argument to them.
Some people in that db0 thread even suggested feddit.org should just shut down completely, which is ridiculous. Every country must’ve laws you don’t agree with, but you don’t run and hide because of that.
This “we vs. them” attitude is exactly what’s been criticized about MAGA all of the time, but doing it in this case is perfectly legitimate, somehow. I don’t know what kind of brain gymnastics you’ll have to do to come to a conclusion like this.
It’s just exhausting trying to talk to these people. I say let them shut down their community and hang out in their radicalized bubble. Good riddance.
mrdown@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
LeninWeave@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
“Black and white thinking” is when you don’t like people who defend their defense of genocide by saying “it’s the law”?
Sometimes I wonder if German instances are a social experiment and our reactions are being recorded and analyzed.
muelltonne@feddit.org 4 hours ago
The internet is awesome. You can discuss genocides with someone who named himself and has a profile picture after an dictator who did several genocides! And this guy is attacking others for “defense of genocide”! Great invention this internet thingy!
LeninWeave@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
We have found the most historically literate feddit user.
muelltonne@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Are you really denying that Lenin killed several millions of people?
thirdworldistWMD@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
this is so historically illiterate it’s laughable. What genocides did lenin commit lmao
muelltonne@feddit.org 3 hours ago
For example the genocide on the don cossacks:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Cossackization
and of course the whole Red Terror which killed several millions:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror