3 ms·
Pretty sure it's not assholes but rather people with opinions that the others hate. Or is that what "toxic assholes" means to you? Is expressing an assholey opi
by sacrosancty 4y ago
Pretty sure it's not assholes but rather people with opinions that the others hate. Or is that what "toxic assholes" means to you? Is expressing an assholey opinion in a polite respectful way is still toxic assholery? If that's the case, then you need to step back and work out how you decide what opinions are assholey.
- giantrobot 4y agoTo use an extreme example, a polite Nazi is still a Nazi. No matter how respectful they might seem they are still at their core awful pieces of shit. There's also toxic assholes just due to their obnoxious behavior. Neither inherently deserves to be heard or be amplified. Nobody needs to put up with their shit.
- 10amxn10 4y ago[dead]
- sacrosancty 4y agoHow do you decide that a Nazi is a toxic asshole while other people aren't? I'm not asking about that specific type of person but about your general way of classifying them. Where's the boundary? If some new ideology comes along, how will you know how to classify its adherents?
- giantrobot 4y ago> How do you decide that a Nazi is a toxic asshole while other people aren't? Oh, that's easy. Advocating the wholesale extermination of people based on ethnicity is a strong signal you're a toxic asshole. If a new ideology comes along advocating the same thing...there's a good chance its adherents are also toxic assholes. Is this even a serious fucking question?
- sacrosancty 4y agoWhat about Nazis who don't advocate for extermination of people based on ethnicity? If you associate yourself with the ideology, are you automatically guilty of advocating all its things even if you don't agree with all of them? And yes, it's a serious question. Seems like you have a simple decision tree of ethnic extermination? -> Toxic asshole.