X has taken its stance. Nazis on the platform are allowed. Pro-Hitler posts are allowed. Holocaust denial is allowed.
If you stay on a platform like that, you can't escape this creeping normalization. Even if you think you can.
"Oh, there goes another Holocaust denier. Just part of being online, I guess."
"Oh, another transphobe calling people dehumanizing slurs. Well that's the Internet for you."
Creeping normalization is like advertising. Even if you think it won't influence you, it will.
The establishment of unfair labor practices depends on normalizing abuse
The entrenchment of unfair one-party rule relies on normalizing abuse.
https://medium.com/mindfully/emotional-abuse-is-as-american-as-apple-pie-5996b79f7a6b
https://medium.com/fearless-she-wrote/public-harassment-of-women-is-normalized-and-that-failure-is-on-all-of-us-b8dc2ce05108
Getting citizens used to being treated poorly is Republican political strategy
https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2023/01/27/abuse-of-political-power-is-the-abuse-of-people-when-are-we-going-to-stop-re-electing-dictators/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erinspencer1/2022/11/02/women-in-politics-have-to-deal-with-more-harassment-and-violence-a-new-database-is-tracking-those-threats/?sh=266d6c69e16c
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