@Uncle Van @AL sama @TheAncientCenturion
Let's say that I create a form of petition about the state of Worstgen and a list potential change.
How many people would need to sign the petition (reasonnably) for the staff to consider potential change?
Far right one yeah. Authoritarian one yeah. Religious one also yeah. But that's not because of the radicalization, that's because of the values that such radicalization creates.
The better question would rather be: Is it ethical to radicalize and if yes, in which context?
A prime rule of politics is that a space where reactionaries and fascist can talk freely can only adopt these values over time.
This means that in a fascist world, a forum such as this one, with only basic rules of conduct, will eventually let fascist and reactionaries enter the space, which will eventually push the space toward reactionarism and toxicity. This is not an invention, this is a basic political and social process.
If you want this place to be positive place, then this forum needs to contain the trashtalking behavior and adopt an ethical stance. Then it must be protected from the reactionnarism.
I'm really not overestimating the importance of having progressive an ethical space on the internet in the current geopolitical context (fascism rising everywhere)
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Careful. Don't essentialize.
As you said, there might be muslim rejoicing, but they are reactionaries like you said. It's important to keep the nuance especially now, this is what prevent us from separating zionists from jews.
And no, the internet must not be nuke. Without the internet, we wouldn't even be aware of the genocide.
You really should stop talking now
Without internet, there would be no me too, feminism would still be stuck in the 90', there would no awareness of genocides and massacres, imperialism would be hands free, racism would be hands free. There would be no representations, the world would be slow down by decades in term of protests and human rights.
Yeah, internet accelerated the rise of fascist ideas, but it also accelerated the rise of progressive one too.