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 6 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 6 months ago
Only I can fight nazis because I don’t want you to get hurt boo <3
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hey my hobby is punching nazis i don’t want boo to get hurt either :3
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 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 6 months ago
X doesn’t fight Nazis, they welcome them.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s called Twitter, Nazis don’t get to change the names of things.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 6 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)”.