Hey all, I recently left reddit like many of you. I have a question regarding lemmy and the fediverse on the history of banning and defederation. I have noticed several posts calling for varying communities to be disconnected. were these removal requests as prevalent before the mass migration? Usually I am all for communities existsting in their own spaces, barring illegal content. I am hoping that the new users are coming here with the intent to learn how this community works, before we try to remake the community we just left.

    • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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      Are you familiar with the Salem witch trials, the werewolf trials in France in the 1500s and 1600s and the Satanic Panic of the late 80s and early 90s? Those people thought they were morally justified in anything they did against the accused because they were fighting against literal Satan.

      World War 2 ended 75 years ago. Virtually everyone who was a Nazi is dead of old age.

      So who are you stomping?

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        There are plenty of white supremacist fascists out there. People often call them nazis because we don’t give a shit about splitting hairs regarding if they are a member of the actual Nazi party or if they’re just closely related scum.

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        also funny that you only bring up horseshit things as your dodge with witches, werewolves and Satan, you know all not real, but Nazis and bigots are real so it seem a weird comparison

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        There are lots of fascists all around the world. If I call someone a nazi I dont mean members of the NSDAP but people that share the views of the WW2 nazis. Nazi gets thrown around a bit too inflationary since not all fascists are (neo)nazis, you cant really call the Japanese Regime during and after WW2 nazis since they have different goals and worldviews but they definitely show fascist tendencies to varying degrees.