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I am seeing this pattern a lot lately, whenever a person disagrees strongly or expresses conservative/right wing views, they are told to go back to reddit.

You can say 'Don't bring these bullshit views to the fediverse,' or something of that sort. I am a reddit refugee myself, and part of the Reddit API exodus. Being told to go someplace I just left due to ethical reasons feels bad. So, I want to understand why it is being used as a retort. Is it really rude, or am I making a fuss out of nothing?

Edit 1: I am NOT defending conservative views, I think that they should not be given a platform in the fediverse. I am questioning how telling them to go back to reddit is a valid response.

Edit2 : Edited the the title to better represent my question.

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[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Who is people like me? Non whites? Who have I called a nazi? You replied to a post about nazi punks (a hyper well documented phenomenon) and how punks have to make it clear they are not welcome much like bars to avoid becoming nazi bars. What is your point? Nazis should be welcome? Because your spiel about mislabeling isn't relevant.

[–] kittykillinit@lemy.lol -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Because your spiel about mislabeling isn’t relevant.

Except it is. If people didn't regularly do what I'm accusing them of, then you'd have a point.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So what's your solution? Just accept all the Nazis for fear of it really being a mistake? That's how you get a nazi bar.

[–] kittykillinit@lemy.lol 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Solution to what? I said his stance amounts to agree with him or leave and explained why.

A better question would be, what's your problem?

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You are taking all this time to run defense about how it's actually bad to force Nazis out of spaces like the punk scene because some of them might just be mislabeled. I assumed if you were going to talk shit you'd at least have a solution? If it's bad to force Nazis out of spaces then should they be allowed in all spaces or did you perhaps receive a divine revelation about how it's actually possible to beat them in the marketplace of ideas or some such nonsense?

[–] kittykillinit@lemy.lol -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I made a 1-line comment and you people came out of the woodwork trying to make a defense.

I'm not saying it's bad to force nazis out of spaces. My point is: Saying “nazis aren’t welcome” is akin to “agree with me or leave” in an environment where people call their opposition nazis just to have them censored. This is that environment.

It's fine if you misunderstood what I said or why I said it. Hopefully I was able to clear things up.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It was just a fairly tone deaf reply given the topic. It comes off very much like the standard nazi defense when they get called out on dog whistles. Maybe that wasn't your intention but I'm sure if you read them again you can see how it gives that impression.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago

Essentially what it read like, thank you for finding the proper words