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

    • dartos@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I think that’s awful an immature behavior. When you fight idiocy with aggression (at least on social media) you just get idiots who think they must be right and start truth social or something

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          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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                  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.

                  • 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