• stevehobbes@lemmy.world
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    I’ll never understand this moral handwringing about mob rule.

    No one is burning witches. There’s no value to having a bunch of neo-nazi perspectives. They’re not useful, productive or worth platforming.

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      This. No fucking nazis that should be banned automatically whenever they try to start any community.

      Fuckers can stay on true social or whatever the hell trump calls his platform and stay away from Lemmy.

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        You realize a major purpose of federation is so that content can’t be censored so easily by a central authority? This isn’t Twitter. If you need a safe space, the fediverse isn’t for you.

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          This is exactly the space for creating all sorts of spaces. No one needs to federate with you here. It’s up to instance owners and there’s plenty of instances.

          Nazi trash can stay entirely off any instance that I’m on and if they show up and nothing is done I’ll go elsewhere. Period.

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        You could read Karl Popper’s The Paradox of Tolerance.

        There’s no need to debate Nazism or Fascism with Nazis and Fascists. The education on it should come from historians and those otherwise educated in it.

        When we censor Nazis we win. When we let them into our spaces we lose.

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            You simultaneously reject it and believe he wrote it to prove how unsustainable it is?

            You’re entirely wrong. No ideas need to be shared where people don’t want to hear them. You are free to speak and I am free to not listen. It’s truly a beautiful approach.

            Edit: I’d also like to add that the paradox Popper is referring to is that of tolerating intolerance. That’s the paradox.