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.
You have some really stupid ideas, but this one takes the cake. And the one where you think Nazi ideology is dead because you haven’t seen anyone wearing a swastika.
If you find the idea that mindlessly chanting slogans to justify punishing your enemies wrong so offensive, go ahead and keep chanting. There’s certainly nothing I can do to stop you.
The reason the world wars and the holocaust were so traumatic to western civilization wasn’t that nobody thought humans were capable of such barbarity (We had plenty of horrors throughout history that western civilization was perfectly aware of), it’s because everyone thought enlightened western civilization with its liberalism and enlightenment and Christianity wasn’t capable of such barbarity. Then we had a huge wake-up call.
I get pushback from both sides of the political spectrum at the idea that we need to remain cognizant and critical of our own actions even if we think we’re fighting a dangerous enemy.