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I have views that lots people on social media will disagree on, but unless they are far-right, I think its still not exactly completely hostile.
But here, oh boy, if you aren't left enough, you are a "fascist".
By Lemmy standards, most people I've talked to would be "fascist". Your uncle with a small bussiness complaining about a liberal politician? Yep he's literally adolf hitler. Your grandma that only ever gets fed propaganda? She's no different from someone cheering at the gas chambers. Your male classmates that never had good influence in their life and fell into a manosphere rabbit hole because the left abandoned young men, and they just wanna feel better and be "alpha" (or whatever it is they say)? Oh yea according to Lemmy, we should just shoot all these people. Shoot your grandma cuz its her fault for watching propaganda. Your uncle is a nazi because he has a stuggling bussines and got swindled by a politician. Dont even bother teying to talk to your conservative neighbor, Lemmy commands you to shoot them on sight. Everyone is evil unless they are 100% Socialist.
I would say Lemmy is better than 4chan or someshit like that, but its not some internet paradise.
But at least you wont get called a slur here, thats the best part about far-left spaces over the far-right. Radical racial inclusivity and pro LGBTQ is the best thing about Lemmy, even when toxicity happens, at least your race or sexual lifestyle is never criticized. But "more accepted" is not exactly the right word.
I see that a lot. It’s damaging.
You need to understand that in the United States, we literally have a secret police kidnap people off the streets, and then immediately remove them out of state and delete their records so that they cannot be tracked, to facilities that don't provide adequate living standards to the extent that people die in them. They are literally "cheering at the gas chambers." I understand fascism hasn't reached this point in Canada yet, but you should still recognize that it's a harmful ideology.
Problem is, you yelling "ICE is Gestapo" just sounds like fearmongering to the average person. Because statisti ally most people never see ice, and even when they do, it just seems like "immigration enforcement". Dont think about it from a Leftist mindset, think from the normie's brain. Like view this thing with normie lens and it just seems like a normal part of the system.
At first I was scared to, I explained that to my aunt about my reluctance to exit the us borders in fear of not being able to return. (Because I do not like the previous country I came from) But she's like "oh really?" like she did not even take it seriously.
Because she left the US and reentered dozens of times and nothing happened. She is visibly non-white, we are Chinese American, but she is a US Citizen and she never had issues at the border, neighther my Uncles. None of my extended family, visibly East Asian, had any problems with ICE.
I was also kinda worried about my mom going to China, because like both sides feels sketchy. I feel like China would call her a traitor and the US would, on return, deny entry or accuse her of being a Communist spy or something like that. Nope, she and my older brother just returned just fine. Just normal entry never detained in some dark room. Never gotten any extra scrutiny.
I also recently visited Canada with my mother, we came back just fine, no ICE shenanigans.
And we are ethnically Chinese just to remind you again.
So imagine white families. How often do you think they see ICE if we dont even see ICE.
How do you convince people about a "Gestapo" when like statistically most people dont see it.
Like if I try to talk to a conservative, and they ask "have you ever been stopped by ICE? Have you even seen ice" I'd have to be honest and say no, then they could go "see, your legal, you're gonna be fine, they're just after the 'illegals'"
Like idk how to even argue.
I'm not denying that it happens, to brown people, it definitely does happen. Its just between work and making food and chores who really does all the research? Some kid unemployed could do these research, but average working adults do not have the time to research. Anything they see on tv feels like "oh yea thats just enforcing the law" to normies.
Edit: Btw the "uncles and grandma watching propaganda" was an example, I dont actually know what my uncles, aunts, grandparents voted for, but they're very normie so it wouldnt be shocking if they did vote conservative.
Daily. On the news. The last time I had a family lunch with my dad's side, my dad shared a "fun fact" that so many people have been cleared out that some towns are seeing drops in rent, to which my grandmother responded "That's great, they should do that here in our neighborhood." They know. When I say they are literally cheering at the gas chambers, I'm not being a fanatic. Fascist Germany happened in real life. Regular people were sincerely brainwashed into believing complete evil was good for them, and I have seen the Republicans do it to my family and my supervisors. The regular ass people who loved me and helped me be the best person I can be, who spent my entire childhood teaching me not to be a nazi, became god damn nazis.
Bruh your uncle is literally Hitler thas wild