The thing is, nazis and other right wing weirdos are the ones who want gatekeeping. While nazis wanted it for obvious reasons, those that are less far-right often thought that by creating “conservative-friendly” circles, they can avoid censorship from conservatives.
Yes, this was the logic behind new atheists too. Blair White got it from there actually.
I agree, it’s just the joke only worked if I used that other name.
I roll with “Elon deadnames his child, a human being with emotions, and while that remains the case I will deadname Elon’s platform (which can’t itself care about anything or have emotions)”.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s not gatekeeping a hobby, that’s fighting Nazis. Now if you say only x can fight Nazis, that’s gatekeeping.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Only I can fight nazis because I don’t want you to get hurt boo <3
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
hey my hobby is punching nazis i don’t want boo to get hurt either :3
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The thing is, nazis and other right wing weirdos are the ones who want gatekeeping. While nazis wanted it for obvious reasons, those that are less far-right often thought that by creating “conservative-friendly” circles, they can avoid censorship from conservatives.
Yes, this was the logic behind new atheists too. Blair White got it from there actually.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
X doesn’t fight Nazis, they welcome them.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s called Twitter, Nazis don’t get to change the names of things.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I agree, it’s just the joke only worked if I used that other name.
I roll with “Elon deadnames his child, a human being with emotions, and while that remains the case I will deadname Elon’s platform (which can’t itself care about anything or have emotions)”.