• Slashme@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Calling your political opponents subhuman comes from the fascist playbook. I wouldn’t go there.

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      Anyone that behaves like a creature from a Germanic folk tale will be categorized as one. Humanity is a label that must be demonstrated and earned.

      Do you know what else comes from the fascist playbook? Every leftist term imaginable, because the movement is fundamentally weaponized bad faith. As with the paradox of tolerance, do not grant that benefit to those who would not grant it to others. Neoliberal language policing helps nobody.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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      I agree with the spirit of what you say, we must not be like the fascist horde, and I hold in the other hand the understanding that the concept of evil and the demonoc throughout history is based on sociopathic humans like the ones that lead this country.