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No. If you're advocating for bullying, then you might as well be a fascist. You can't walk like a fascist and talk like a fascist, and then claim you're not really a fascist just because you're not one of those fascists.
There are no good fascists. And there are no good bullies. And I won't play along with your attempts to normalize either of those things.
Moral relativist cowardice. Performative high-road bullshit. Neither makes you a good person.
Taking a principled stance on something isn't cowardice, nor is it performative.
And I don't care whether you think I'm a good person or not, because you advocate for bullying. You can burn in hell with the rest of the fascists for all I care.
Okay. When they’re loading you and the people you care about into a van or onto a train, you can comfort everyone by telling them about your principles.
They’ll thank you, really.
That isn't relevant. Just because fascists are seizing power doesn't make bullying okay. It makes bullying especially bad. You're ignoring the fact that the fascists are the bullies.
You're basically saying I'm a goody-two-shoes for being against bullying and fascism, and trying to use hypothetical scenarios about the extremes to which fascism can descend in order to shame me about being against it.
Completely warped logic on your part.
You’re complicit. You’re too comfortable. You’re a coward. And you sound white as hell.
Just because I'm against bullying doesn't make me complicit or comfortable with fascism, and it doesn't make me a coward either.
I'm also not sure what my race has to do with it. But if you want to bring race into it, then think for a moment about what you're advocating for. "Bring back bullying" can be used by white supremacists as much as by anyone else, so if the klan starts going around terrorizing black communities, just know that this is what you wished for when you said "Bring back bullying."