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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:
> It happened because the alt-right came into power, and too many centrists within too many genteel spaces were too weak to say the things that needed to be said about that.
Extremes thrive by creating artificial enemies. Currently it’s immigrants and trans folks and too many people won’t call out their crap and let them make up stuff, dehumanize and demonize entire segments of the population. I’m not particularly OK with spaces who just shrug and say “let’s get along”. Ok mediocre white dude (it’s always that) they might not be coming after you and you might be safe but saying nothing and doing nothing just enables and empowers the evil. “Don’t worry it’ll be ok if we hold space for the fascists. They won’t come after us” is a take not worth having.
Shit is the same energy as mediocre white dude mansplaining the signal roadmap to the CEO of signal just cuz she’s a woman. “Don’t worry honey I got this. I know what I’m talking about cuz I follow tech”.