• LegionEris [she/her]@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Tbh, and this is an unpopular opinion throughout much of the federation, this is part of what I like about Lemmy as a website and community. Any space that genuinely meaningfully cares about free speech is going to have extremists. Lemmy is no exception. This website/community has people on the far left with whom I firmly disagree. Some of these people I consider dangerously out of touch with reality. But generally speaking they don’t want to just fucking kill me. There is literally nothing I can do to make a right wing extremist not want to kill me. It’s common and widespread on most social media. Left wing extremists very rarely just want to purge me for homogeny. Any political system or government or country can collapse into fascism and start purging minorities in pursuit of homogeny, but my experience is that homogeny is a common goal and desire across the right wing spectrum, but only a fringe aspect of the left. A “tankie” may hate me for what I believe and do, but that’s better than a “nazi” who hates me just for being. And that is a compromise I’m willing to make to maintain and participate in a low censorship environment.

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      We hear about extremists, but I think most leftists want everyone to get along and wouldn’t want to kill people unless they really had to.

      The repercussions of killing its own population is counterproductive if the people can still be doing work for your program.

      If one has the choice of imprisoning to rehabilitate a fascist or killing a fascist when you achieve hegemony, imprisonment is definitely preferable.

      • LegionEris [she/her]@feddit.nl
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        Oh I agree with all of that. My convoluted point was that even the rare legitimate dangerous fringe leftist is usually less dangerous than many of the pervasive directions of the right.