Post by @admin@lemmy.my-box.dev

2026-09-12 20:20 UTC

Well, I chose to preserve that term to those who are more on the physical side of the spectrum - which, I do admit, David Hansson is crouching up close to. But this bullshit about everyone who associates with him to whatever degree (orcgirl was up to three, but if you follow the logic, it’s infinite) is absolutely devaluing the meaning of the word. That, if anything, is helping the actual nazis just as badly.

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@elixir_fan@lemmy.ml 2026-09-13 18:08

No one is arguing for the hypothetical that if you’re somehow linked to a nazi by an infinite number of degrees of separation you’re literally a nazi, as that would make the term nazi, calling people out, and so on, useless. Read it in the only way it makes sense: those with the most power, such as big businesses, platform owners, politicians, and so on, have the responsibility not to platform them, definitely not to fund them, not to normalize them, not to launder their ideas or their acts. And regular people like me or (I assume) you, we still have a responsibility not to tolerate nazis. We have a responsibility to call these people out, to protest, to defend those who are marginalized the most, to organize and stop the worst from happening. Because our politicians sure as hell won’t stop them, and big corporations are already showing their hand.

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@Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 2026-09-14 14:10

How about we start calling them bigoted shit bags? That help you out?

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