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Perhaps insinuating the desire to kill and or maim other people is off-putting (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Firstnamebunchofnumbers@hexbear.net to c/selfcrit@hexbear.net

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Even if those people are fascists

Edit: i should have clarified im talking about torture and sadistic pleasure. Ie injecting hydrochloric acid into the eyeballs and seeing what happens

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[–] Inui@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You shouldn't show your inner Hexbear at every opportunity and start bringing up gulags or whatever, but I'm past giving grace to those people. I state pretty clearly that I think the world would be objectively better if X was dead and the only people who don't think so are fascist followers themselves or haven't considered the gravity of harm X has actually caused. It gives the opportunity to deconstruct that abstract harm and put it in terms they understand so that "killing X" no longer sounds worse to them than "X's actions are not physically violent but have socially murdered 10,000 people". It helps to bring up that Hitler never directly killed anyone himself.

I also plainly state that I am satisfied when people get Kirked. It sometimes makes people uncomfortable but I think how you say it matters, like "someone should KILL this guy!" is gonna get you the side eye for sure.