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Thank You Everyone For Rejecting The Fascists/Bigots At The Door (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After years of reddit/twitter/facebook propping up fascism/bigotry with algorithms & bots I'm honestly surprised and relieved to be in an online space that clearly rejects their ideology.

They can have reddit/facebook/twitter. AFAIC the only way to reach some of these people is to leave them alone long enough to realize on their own.

Lemmy.world admins are doing an amazing job dealing with everything. Their recent decision to defederate from exploding heads (or whatever its called) really goes to show that they're in it for the right reasons. > https://lemmy.world/post/694810?scrollToComments=true

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They deserve to have their fascist communities die off. The idea that they deserve a voice is why America is having its current problems

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And the idea that debating these people does anything other than platform and broadcast their sickness is destroying both social media and the news. We don't need to both-sides every issue and pretend that it's a debate, when it's people who view certain others as sub-human vs people who don't. Whether certain groups should exist or have the same rights as the rest of us is not a debate topic and we need to stop treating it like it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Spot on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea that everyone deserves a voice no matter how horrific those voices are is an idea that needs to die. Fascists, racists, bigots, nazis, etc. Should never be allowed a "safe space"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Direct confrontation usually works well enough and can resolve whether someone is serious or playing devils advocate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's why there is a general fascist upsurge on the world.