On a real note, instead of seeing it as “name calling” maybe now is the opportunity to ask yourself instead, “why am I being called a nazi and a fascist?”

Yeah lmao. 100% red flag.

Don’t wanna be called a Nazi? Don’t act like one

The far-right is obviously aware, but they’ve learned the importance of dodging labels.

Not too long ago, neo-nazis called themselves neo-nazis and consequently had almost no access to popular communication platforms. After all, the moment someone admits to being a Nazi, you know their political views are dogshit and their solutions immoral and ineffective.

Then, they announced they were now “the alt-right” and everything suddenly changed. Not their opinions, pundits and idols of course, but their access to communication.

That tiny bit of plausible deniability bought them space on platforms they had only dreamed of. They were allowed to build themselves little communities full of abusive scum on major social media sites. Some of them were even on television! It’s the furthest they’d ever been able to push their views before they were spat on.

By the time “Unite the Right” rolled around, they were feeling untouchable. They whipped off their masks, triumphantly declared “Ha! We were nazis all along!” and started marching around with tiki torches, chanting antisemetic catch phrases and waving Nazi flags. They even got to do a bit of domestic terrorism against innocent people.

But the fallout was huge. The platforms that had been coddling them and claiming “it’s important to hear all viewpoints” suddenly treated them like radioactive cups of asparagus piss.

The rebranding they’d worked so hard on was ruined. Everyone knew they were neo-nazis again, only discernible from the original National Socialists by the word “SJWs” scrawled in crayon at the bottom of their list of undesirables.

But they learned from that mistake. They learned to stay mask on and never, ever “reveal their powerlevel”, even as they wrote Mein Kamph fan fiction and attacked anyone who wasn’t straight, white and stupid.

Labels were to be avoided at all costs. If anyone asked, they were simply “conservatives”, perhaps even “centrists”. It was the social media equivalent of the Proud Boys in their khaki pants and white balaclavas, still fuming over the jobs, friends and family they lost when they went out without them.

Because without labels, they couldn’t be criticised. They’d used 1984 not as a warning, but as an inspiration. They had to control the language. The “alt-right” was not only dead, it had never existed at all.

And if people reverted to simply calling them “nazis” again, they had a catch phrase to use as a shield, parroted by scumbags and useful idiots alike.

“The left just call anyone who disagrees with them a Nazi”.

The meaning of nazi and fascist are so watered down, the terms are so overused, they only mean that the user of the term is a leftist upset with someone.

If you want to say something is bad, say why its bad instead of just saying nazi or fascist.

I realize the optics, but the quality of discussion is horrible right now. And the alternatives were just not good.

Going the “Conservatives only tag” route would have been anti-free speech, stifled discussion, and would only helped certain threads.

Going the “bad faith arguments” route would have a ton of trying to read minds, trying to figure out what is and isn’t bad faith, and that would also stifle discussion. Just a bad idea all around.

This way, its clear cut, and it might even promote discussion. Instead of saying “Hes a Nazi”, say “This is a problem because X reason”

I’d like for there to be a community where actual discussions of convervative issues and opinions could occur. Heck I think it would be great if there were a functional conservative party operating in the US, but we’re long past that ever being possible. Moderate conservatives are primaried out because they aren’t fascist enough. Best of luck, but I’ll block this community, in all likelihood some time in the near future, because at this point in the world when you put conservative as a label on a community it will be a dog whistle that attracts nazis, fascists, racists, etc. SMH.

Why did you even comment then?

Please do take your toys and go home.

Conservative =/= MAGA

Tell you what, you can use those words as much as you want in this thread, just this thread.

Can you even define fascism? (hint: this is a trap)

This is the exact kinda shit I’m trying to shut down.

Its what opened my eyes to how the word has no real meaning. If wanting to genocide jews doesn’t make you a nazi, but not wanting women hurt does, what does nazi even mean?

“Someone virtually quoting ‘Mein Kampf’”

Don’t worry, we’re talking about removing the rule, it was a bad idea.

Uh, no?

Did you fail to read the title?

The nazi/fascist keyword rule has been taken down.