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TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 1 year agoThe concept is that you don’t have to politely sit quietly and listen while someone spouts hate. You are empowered and encouraged to make it stop. That doesn’t necessarily involve physical violence but it should remind you that hate can weaponize the rules of polite society and you don’t have help.
yiliu@informis.land 1 year ago
This is true. For example, a musician could wave a banner saying “<insert group you don’t like here> lives don’t matter!”
Fuck the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei of Germany, circa 1920-45. Fuck the American Nazi Party. Fuck neo-nazis. Fuck Trump, for that matter, though for all his very obvious flaws, he’s not a Nazi. FWIW, I was warning people in 2015 that Trump had all kinds of fascist energy.
But I mean, if you look up-thread, now I’m a Nazi. That’s the problem. People use ‘Nazi’ the way Nazis used ‘vermin’ or ‘parasite’: the worst word they could think of to slap on their enemies, in order to dismiss everything they say. To dehumanize their opponents.
Add two and two together, and in this thread people have said my life doesn’t matter. Why? Because I said I didn’t like this stupid patronizing banner. And I worry about the day when people really do that math–the way they did on the Right during the Trump years, and started killing churches full of black people.
These people think they’re sooo different. They’re just potential fascists with a different flag.