Comment on How has your Lemmy experience changed over the past few months?
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year agoIf you’re being called racist or homophobic by multiple people multiple times…you might be.
Or it’s people trying to muddy the water to both-sides something. I’ve been noticing an uptick of posts from the far-right crowd creeping out of the woodwork recently, and they’re all up in arms about people saying US Conservatives are intolerant.
Being told not to be an asshole to others isn’t intolerance. It is the intolerance of intolerance - which is a necessary part of a tolerant society.
See: The Paradox of Intolerance (which the far right nuts call the new Mein Kamp. Gross).
Yea, the one I see the most is calling something racist when it’s in any way excludes white men. It may be a far-right tactic muddying the waters, but often it’s just naivety. I fell into that trap early in my life too. Difference was I never stopped learning. The things that seemed bad on the surface became a lot clearly once my curiosity forced me to figure out how and why those things started. Turns out, and I don’t want to blow anyone’s minds here, just about everything has a backstory and a really good reason for it. Shocker I know. Doesn’t mean it all ended up working as intended or anything, and some things are truly nefarious, but ultimately glossing over the history is what leads people to these bad takes.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Wow, I hope you don’t live by that advice yourself. People on social media type all kinds of crazy things. :)
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Depends. There are plenty of being using “racists” wrong, particularly meaning reverse racism or not understanding systemic racism. But it depends on what you’re saying to be called those things.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Yeah I agree it depends, that’s true.