Woozle HypertwinAcid test for any social network or fedi instance:
If you say "fuck you" to a Nazi, who gets banned?
svegress@woozle You. Your language is the offense. You're the one who is making a judgement of what that other person is. Stay cool if you want to have a reasonable argument.
OtterSparx 🌳🍁 (🔜 FWA2023)@ottersparx @woozle Please explain 🤔
@Svegress
I think you're being a bit presumptious in assuming that I'm talking about something I did, since I've seen this happen many times to other people.
On #Nextdoor, for instance, they make it clear that even being rude towards people expressing Nazi-like ideas is likely to get you suspended or banned -- so I've avoided doing so, but I've nonetheless been suspended at least twice for more or less this exact reason. For the sake of argument, then, I am the one saying "fuck you" to a Nazi.
Why is that bad?
@woozle I read Svegress' response as "being rude to Nazis is bad" and that's what I wanted to say was incorrect.
I declined to elaborate because I'm frankly uninterested in debating it, and nor do I believe this should require a debate.
@ottersparx I absolutely agree. (I'm running into a thankfully-small percentage of views like that and am engaging with them only for the sake of onlookers who might need help seeing the BS for what it is.)
@woozle Ah, I misunderstood and thought the last line was directed at me. You're doing good work, I'm just dense.