I haven’t seen a person identify as a conservative on Lemmy without also a shitheel about civil rights.
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SlothMama@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This screams that people with different opinions aren’t people with valid opinions and lead to further dialectic conversation, and I reject that premise.
Conservatives should be welcome. Everyone should be welcome.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
That’s probably selection bias. Conservatives that aren’t shitheels probably don’t say they’re conservative.
CoCo_Goldstein@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ok… well now you have. Everyone should be treated equally under the law. No one should be discriminated against.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well… that’s not quite what I said. I said civil rights. Not equal treatment under the law. If the government passed a law banning Jewish people or that I can own a black man or that trans people can use their preferred bathroom, that law could be equally applied to everyone, but not effect everyone equally.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I disagree, Nazi’s have zero place anywhere in society outside of a history book.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They’re not Nazis. Calling them Nazis just makes it easier to do this stuff
WammKD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I don’t think they were saying they’re Nazis; unfortunately, many people can’t recognize the harm a group does if that harm is slow or “off-screen” (like the poverty or civil restrictions most conservative policies inevitably result in).
I think they were just using a conservative group such as the Nazis since it’d be much more obvious to the average person as to why we need to draw a line, with some groups, and cleanly indicate why OP’s blanket statement that “everyone should be welcome” can’t possibly be true.
There are those who view this offer to share their thoughts and existence as an opportunity to permanently terminate the same of others.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Are “they” in the room with us right now?
I never even said who was a Nazi, just that they don’t have a place in society.
way to miss the point…
teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wow, it’s almost like you have trouble to make yourself understood. There are more than one that “misread” what you wrote, so perhaps some introspection is due.
WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’re openly fascists. I don’t know why you’re trying to split hairs. They’re not hiding it.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But they aren’t nazis. Just like you probably aren’t a naxalite, even though you might have a similar opinion on specific subjects.
Argue the point of a subject and stop swerving off to name calling.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 days ago
who are “they”?
teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Could ask you the same. You seem to imply most of all people that voted for Trump, or that agree with republicans on an issue they seem important. Hate to brake it to you, but there aren’t that many genuine nazis.
aliteral@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Agree. Also Fascists and Theocrats.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What if they’re Nazis in Ukraine? Weren’t you agreeing with anti-tankie sentiment in other comments?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nazis in Ukraine are still Nazis. Fortunately, there weren’t very many Nazis in Ukraine, and Russia just used that as a scapegoat, and only a fool would believe otherwise 😊
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s enough that they name streets after Nazis, cover their uniforms in Nazi symbols, and appoint self-declared Nazis to positions of power.