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People on lemmy retort stuff like this with "If you talk to a nazi, you ARE a nazi".
Meanwhile it's just some dude who likes sourdough.
Honestly we have more in common than we think - on the left we just happen to "eat our own" so to speak.
Nah dude, if you tolerate fascists in any space, they use that space to recruit and try to transform the space for their needs. I've heard this from renfaire folks, who had to drive the fascists out of the space to keep it sane. I've heard about this happening in work places too. You gotta organize with non-fascists and drive the fascists out of the space by being vocally and actively supportive of groups they despise.
I agree with this. If you've ever worked with someone that was awesome to work with and the whole space was left empty when they moved to another company, than you've experienced the opposite of a nazi. One toxic, shitty dude can make the whole place go down the toilet. It really only takes one to change a place.
Want to know what the single biggest recruiting tool Nazis use, that nobody seems to ever talk about? Prison.
I've seen normal, non-bigoted people end up getting busted for a minor drug charge or something stupid, then they go to prison, get their heads filled with racist crap, and then come out sieg-heiling Nazis.
Prison is basically a Nazi-making factory at this point, so why does nobody ever talk about this?
Did we already forget the almost overnight shift in what was seen as acceptable discourse once Trump won in 2016? All these intolerant and hateful assholes crawled out and felt emboldened to chirp christofascist/racist/delusional conspiracies in public and online spaces. And that zeitgeist shift pulled the Overton Window sharply to the right, paving the road for our current situation.
If someone’s basic political ideology is “government should industrialize state murder of X group/s” they are not someone I can make common cause or find sympathetic arguments with, or not without a lot of cult de-programming first.
Okay but if your options are more murder and less murder then you shouldn't feel good about refusing to participate.