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> Can you cite some sources there? this was in my inbox straight from medium staff pick, so I'm using this one I know having had a lot exposure: https://extra

> Can you cite some sources there? this was in my inbox straight from medium staff pick, so I'm using this one I know having had a lot exposure: https://extranewsfeed.com/to-our-fellow-jews-in-the-united-states-in-israel-and-around-the-world-ff421a1d325d https://extranewsfeed.com/to-our-fellow-jews-in-the-united-s... "Any Jew, anywhere, who does not act to oppose President Donald Trump and his administration acts in favor of anti-Semitism" There ya go, this guy just associated non vocal Jews to Nazis, even if with a convoluted wording that avoided the label directly, but called them anti-semite, and I'm not gonna repeat the point of the Nazi 'spectrum' again, but you know where it's gonna go: once the real Nazi's have all been punched, the bar will lower and lower until you can scream racist at someone and have it ostracized, mediatically or otherwise. (ok this fall shorts of "all white man" but I guess you're smart enough to draw the parallels)

zimpenfish 9y ago
> this guy just associated non vocal Jews to Nazis I don't think "anti-Semitism" <=> "Nazism" by a long shot. > the bar will lower and lower You can do better than a slippery slope, surely.
- LoSboccacc 9y ago
  The slippery slope is the whole point tho. Let's restart from the article: "We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs" Say for the sake of argument me and you agree on 3 fundamental aspect of nazism, and that we also agree that if one express an ideology that matches 2 out of 3 of these aspects it's a fair target for online lynching (whether he self defines as a nazi or not, because of course we hate cryptonazis too, they're just nazis with extra steps). Here's the crux of the matter: tomorrow another guy can come and disagree with our definition, and claim there are 6 aspect of nazism. or this guy can be more sensitive, and claim that 1 out of 3 is well enough for starting a media crusade against the perpetrator and try to ruin is life forever. See where I'm going? It's not as easy as "this guy openly claim to support the nazi party" - and live/online mobs aren't exactly known for their rationality and measured response.

zimpenfish 9y ago

> this guy just associated non vocal Jews to Nazis I don't think "anti-Semitism" <=> "Nazism" by a long shot. > the bar will lower and lower You can do better than a slippery slope, surely.

LoSboccacc 9y ago
The slippery slope is the whole point tho. Let's restart from the article: "We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs" Say for the sake of argument me and you agree on 3 fundamental aspect of nazism, and that we also agree that if one express an ideology that matches 2 out of 3 of these aspects it's a fair target for online lynching (whether he self defines as a nazi or not, because of course we hate cryptonazis too, they're just nazis with extra steps). Here's the crux of the matter: tomorrow another guy can come and disagree with our definition, and claim there are 6 aspect of nazism. or this guy can be more sensitive, and claim that 1 out of 3 is well enough for starting a media crusade against the perpetrator and try to ruin is life forever. See where I'm going? It's not as easy as "this guy openly claim to support the nazi party" - and live/online mobs aren't exactly known for their rationality and measured response.