Labels are labels. They are meant:
- To shock the target
- To warn others
The point is not the disrespect, it's to call out a political stance. Cut that possibility out, even if used badly, and you create a situation of danger as proven today very simply. This is what I tried to explain for years.
The point is not the nature of the labels. We don't care about that. The point is the absolute necessity to be able to use them, even wrongly.
Insults are insults, labels are labels. You will never see me be mad by being called a fascist, at best, I'll laugh it out. Simply because this is not about me, it's about the vision someone has of my political stance.
So what?
What is so important to protect here? What kind of trauma does a fascist or a racist or a reactionnary person risk to get by being called out with exageration?
Nothing. The problem here - and the reason why I need to find a way out - is simple:
If this place value the sensibility of a fascist/racist/"factual datas" more than they value a strong ethical stance and the lives of people who can actually be hurt by the rethoric of these people (like I was), then there is nothing worth saving here.
I wanted you guyz to have this discussion. To choose between three very contradicting world.
- Either a place where we allow fascist to speak and we prevent others from calling them out (my threadban)
- Either a place where we allow everything (including letting people hurt others or call out fascist rethoric and people)
- Either a place where we make the stance not to allow fascist/hatefull rethoric (and we find new solutions togethers to make this place work)
I asked clearly and the team refused this discussion, thus choosing by defaut the first option..
This means that - by pure logic - we interact in a potentially highly dangerous place
- To shock the target
- To warn others
The point is not the disrespect, it's to call out a political stance. Cut that possibility out, even if used badly, and you create a situation of danger as proven today very simply. This is what I tried to explain for years.
The point is not the nature of the labels. We don't care about that. The point is the absolute necessity to be able to use them, even wrongly.
Insults are insults, labels are labels. You will never see me be mad by being called a fascist, at best, I'll laugh it out. Simply because this is not about me, it's about the vision someone has of my political stance.
So what?
What is so important to protect here? What kind of trauma does a fascist or a racist or a reactionnary person risk to get by being called out with exageration?
Nothing. The problem here - and the reason why I need to find a way out - is simple:
If this place value the sensibility of a fascist/racist/"factual datas" more than they value a strong ethical stance and the lives of people who can actually be hurt by the rethoric of these people (like I was), then there is nothing worth saving here.
I wanted you guyz to have this discussion. To choose between three very contradicting world.
- Either a place where we allow fascist to speak and we prevent others from calling them out (my threadban)
- Either a place where we allow everything (including letting people hurt others or call out fascist rethoric and people)
- Either a place where we make the stance not to allow fascist/hatefull rethoric (and we find new solutions togethers to make this place work)
I asked clearly and the team refused this discussion, thus choosing by defaut the first option..
This means that - by pure logic - we interact in a potentially highly dangerous place
