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As a Jewish gay person of color it deeply disturbs me to see an increase in nazism and hateful rhetoric. Is there anything we can do to prevent the rise of this hateful ideology (besides generic things like voting)?

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're american, use your second ammendment

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve always felt that the quickest way to overcome the Second Amendment; would be to heavily arm POC and have them exercise that right by peaceful walks through white neighborhoods

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Roof Koreans are seen as the pinnacle in 2A communities. When the police abandoned them, they ensured their persons and livelihoods were safe.

[–] useragent13@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't agree with the second amendment. I think that we should remove it from the constitution

[–] LuhimeWired@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Armed minorities are harder to oppress.

[–] norske@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there was an easy answer, it would already be done.

The only thing I can say is treat everyone with as much empathy and kindness as you can. There is plenty of anger and shouting to go around and you don’t win people to your side by shaming or insulting.

Those people are still just people and we have much more in common than we have differences. We all want to provide for the people we care about and want to feel safe and stable. They are just fed a non-stop diet of lies and propaganda pushing them to be how they are.

The world has enough vitriol. It could use a lot more kindness.

[–] useragent13@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's not my job to treat nazis with empathy and kindness. If you are a nazi then you deserve to be shut off from society until you decide to be more tolerant

This is like saying that women should treat incels with kindness (insinuating, in bad faith, that the incel problem is their fault) - IT IS NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO BE OTHER PEOPLE'S THERAPISTS

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voting, healthy debate, and standard self-defense practices should cover it.

[–] useragent13@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voting

I specifically mentioned in my post, besides generic things like voting

hEaLtHy DeBaTe

"If you have 9 men at a table and they welcome 1 Nazi, then there are 10 Nazis at the table"

We have been through all this before. Believing that you can "change hearts and minds" means that you're willing to sacrifice the rest of us to preserve people who have shown they patently don't deserve it.

Bigots have agency, they choose to be awful people every single day. You admit that this is the case, because you think you can change their minds (you cannot). Ten people in Buffalo are dead because people like you thought they could change a mind, rather than ensuring a Nazi didn't do something terrible by whatever means necessary.

The shooter had literally been investigated for having illegal firearms before. People like you thought "he's just a kid, he'll change." And he did. For the worse.

Instead of getting mandated counseling or even thrown in a psyche ward they let him plan a mass shooting and kill ten people who were just trying to go to the grocery store.

standard self-defense practices

The "self defense" style of fascist violence that you hinted at in your comment speaks volumes to your character. Downvoted.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

So what kind of answer do you want? Do you want to grab a gun and go fight the Nazis like they did in the 20th century?

Like why are you here if your plan is to shoot down all answers to your question. How do you think a person can fight against Nazism? If it’s not by choosing not to act like a Nazi, I’m not really sure what else there is.

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