Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”

  • dartos@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I usually just ignore them.

    I find that a lot of crazy right wingers do it to “own the libs” or get a rise out of their supposed enemies. It’s all just a sports game to people like that.

    If you ignore them they get bored and stop being so staunch in their awful beliefs. When you fight with them it makes them feel like they’re right. You end up forcing them to rationalize every shitty position.

    Almost nobody posts on the internet trying to challenge and reconsider their beliefs, so it’s not like you’re going to change their mind anyway.

    I mean that’s what I think, at least

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I usually just ignore them.

      Does ignoring the fascists make them go away? Please.

      If you ignore them they get bored and stop being so staunch in their awful beliefs. When you fight with them it makes them feel like they’re right. You end up forcing them to rationalize every shitty position.

      So now you’re accusing us of making fascists more fascist, as an excuse for your ridiculous theory of just ignoring fascism.

      like you’re going to change their mind anyway.

      Its not even about changing their minds. Its about forcing them out of shared spaces. Fascists should driven out, shamed, harassed, and redacted.

      What you think is lib bullshit that gets your spaces infiltrated and taken over by fascists and reactionaries.

      You want to ignore them fine, but don’t condescend to people who confront them and drive them out of shared spaces as if you have a more “mature” solution. Your solution is literally “if i close my eyes they go away” baby logic

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        1 year ago

        And here we see an aggressive communist in the wild. You have a good day, dude

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          We actually study history and read shit. Like I just finished reading Long Walk to Freedom & Armed and Dangerous, both are a fairly good firsthand on how “fascists” respond to non-violence and only start to have reservations when the oppressed shoot back.

          Oh and PIGPOOPBALLS

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            It’s just polarizing. You’re just making people more staunch in their beliefs or just annoying people who would rather not deal with aggression (like myself)

            If your goal is to drive people away and make a space where everyone just agrees with you all the time then it’s effective.

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                This is really the point to hammer home. Back in my lib days, I started hanging out with a dude who was much cooler than me, and his anarchist friends. We once got to talking about how our town used to have a pretty substantial neo-nazi presence, in the 80s-90s. I said something to the effect of “good thing people are smarter today!” and he and his friends got really animated and saying how “they didn’t just go away one day, we fucking chased them out of here!”

                While at first I just didn’t like getting yelled at, it eventually dawned upon me that that he was right. I, and everyone I had ever talked to about it (other libs), just assumed that that whole unpleasant nazi thing just went away, through the magic of progress, presumably. It was just a thing that was there once, now wasn’t. People like him and his friends (and I’ve since met many more) were the actual people who went out and risked life and limb to oppose the nazis everywhere the went, to vandalize their posters and stickers the moment they went up, to show up in numbers every time there was a demonstration. To do everything to make life as shitty as possible for these pieces of shit until it just wasn’t really viable to be a nazi in our town anymore.

                That whole realization did a lot to cure me of my “we can’t sink to their level”/freezepeach brainworms.

            • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              1 year ago

              Polarization is clarifying. It drives away fascists which protects their targets and makes spaces safe for them. It also exposes people who would more readily share spaces with fascists and just ignore them than with the people who oppose them.

              If it drives away people like you who ignore fascism, yet want to argue that opposing it is immature, then that’s a bonus