12 year old account got permabanned for telling a Nazi off. But even before this happened I’ve noticed how much reddit has dropped off the last few years compared to when I discovered it.

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    Lemmy is absolutely not beating the political tribalism allegations, holy.

    Got banned for telling a Nazi off.

    I hate to be that guy, but when you say “Nazi,” are you referring to a literal 1940s National Socialist German Workers Party 3rd/4th Reich “Aryan Race is superior and Jews are evil” Nazi (aka a real actual Nazi), or someone with a different political/social opinion/ideology from you (ie, a Republican/Democrat/whatever is opposite of your political/social ideology)?

    I was on Reddit for like 13 years and never got banned for less than positive interactions with people that said they supported real, actual Nazis.

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        Yes, of course. Because only a Nazi would be concerned with trying to be respectful of victims of the awful, inhumane treatment they had to endure under the rule of one of the worst, if not the worst, governments of all time. Thank you. I should have realized this sooner.

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      3 months ago

      You conveniently left out the mostly likely case of them being Neo-Nazis which have been around since post-WWII.

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        3 months ago

        I mean, was not when I said “4th Reich” including Neo-Nazis? I thought that is what I included.

        Just to be clear, I do not support Nazis or Neo-Nazis. But American Democrats and Republicans (or any other ideology that may be different from my own) are not Nazis or Neo-Nazis. I don’t agree with either side of American politics, but that does not make me qualify them as Nazis.

        IMO, calling anyone that is not an actual, real Nazi, such as an American Democrat or Republican (or whoever else thinks opposite from me), a “Nazi” or even “Neo-Nazi,” de-values the real suffering that people who are actual Holocaust victims had to deal with. Quite frankly, is insulting to me that anyone would ever attempt to equate the two. Its like saying getting hit by a fly swatter and a train will be the same level of pain and suffering.

        I might think someone who thinks opposite of me is stupid, but it is neither illegal or against any rules to be stupid (sadly). But I certainly would not call them a Nazi and de-value the suffering Holocaust victims had to go through.

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          Calling people nazis is just shorthand for fascist which allows people to understand the depths of the horrors these individuals will cause.

          It in no way devalues the suffering of Holocaust victims, its a warning.

          You dont fucking wait until they’re turning the gas valves to go ‘oh these people are fascists!’