ID: Photo of a pink felt heart on a slightly paler pink background, overlaying is stylised text: “make the world a better place punch a nazi in their face”

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Yeah, I respect the principle, but it isn’t realistic.

    By the time someone embraces that kind of ideology, you aren’t talking them out of it. And, more important, you aren’t ending the ideology one at a time.

    It takes something huge to break through that kind of thinking and built up hate. Yeah, you run into cases of it happening when the nazi/fascist/white supremacist/bigot changes over time when no longer able to have support and has someone guiding them. But that’s not going to end it once it’s an existential threat.

    And it is. The ideology was tolerated too long, and supported by people in power. You just don’t have time to talk that away.

    • frankenswine@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      It takes something huge

      you are talking in absolutes and as if you knew what huge thing would solve the issue, but i guess you don’t since this thread is about punching individuals in the face?