I am seeing this pattern a lot lately, whenever a person disagrees strongly or expresses conservative/right wing views, they are told to go back to reddit.
You can say ‘Don’t bring these bullshit views to the fediverse,’ or something of that sort. I am a reddit refugee myself, and part of the Reddit API exodus. Being told to go someplace I just left due to ethical reasons feels bad. So, I want to understand why it is being used as a retort. Is it really rude, or am I making a fuss out of nothing?
Edit 1: I am NOT defending conservative views, I think that they should not be given a platform in the fediverse. I am questioning how telling them to go back to reddit is a valid response.
Edit2 : Edited the the title to better represent my question.
They have gestapo killing people and now theyve started WW3, shut the fuck up about Daryl fucking Davis and get clued into the situation dude. Nazis get the wall. You can try to give therapy to Hitler while they kill more people who don’t deserve it, I care about saving those people. Daryl Davis will probably be in a camp soon, and so will you if you don’t get real
Quite the catastrophizing there. I sympathise. I too have CPTSD [Edit: incidentally, in part, from nearly being democided by Nazis]. Much to heal yet.
It’s plausible Daryl Davis’s contacts could proliferate better ideas within the system, since they’ll know many more nazis yet. Flexes the degrees of separation, see? More opportunities to spread the seeds of curiosity to dispel the ignorant hate. Flaps the butterfly wings to make storms around the world. Handy to have that “work smarter” tool in the toolbox.
I’m not sure why you want to dissuade from having such in the toolbox. It seems a better win, to not just end a Nazi, but gain an ally. And it’s not like killing Nazis has a de-Nazifying effect on the Nazi’s loved ones. More likely to make them double down, for violent vengeance, contributing to the escalating cycle of reciprocal violence and the psychology to dominate. Might not be the best way. Lucky the toolbox holds more than just a hammer. … A hammer that may as well be labelled Nazi, with which to end Nazis by. I’m not sure if out-Nazi’ing Nazi’s even gets us less Nazis. Just different ones.
Would like to know more about the figures… like who’s managing to end more Nazis than Daryl Davis has, and using what method, to what type of results?
And to what level of which abilities required… so that perhaps more people can contribute. Because I doubt many people have it in them to be a rifleman at the wall. … And how do we get the Nazis to the wall? We’re to use the rule of law, and not just a rabid witch hunt for anyone who an accuser has a grievance of? I thought that system was already raddled with them. This hammer’s getting fiddly to wield, once thinking it through past the immediate angry catharsis of the idea.