A problem I’m realizing I’m having is that I’m way more tolerant of right-wing insanity than I am of left-wing insanity.
Like, if you’re left wing, saying that we should punch nazis makes me roll my eyes, because I understand how deranged the left is and that the “nazis” they want to punch usually aren’t even nazis.
But a few days ago I had a right-wing guy try to tell me unironically that the holocaust (as described) didn’t happen, and that if it did, the jews deserved it, that jews were demons, etc. Way more deranged shit than what you typically hear from the “punch nazis” crowd.
I considered blocking, decided to just mute instead, ended up unmuting a few days later because I try to be tolerant of offensive views, and this dude ends up almost immediately spouting more genocidal views and making me realize I should have just kept him muted.
@dave that's the real problem. I used to think the best thing is we just disregard the extremes and let them auto-canibalize each other. But the problem is that the far-left nowadays is far more ubiquitous than far right. They are clearly winning, yet they are bloodthirsty so they require more enemies. In order to create those enemies, they dehumanize relatively normal people by calling them nazis and from that moment onwards, it's fair game; "punch the nazis".
