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[meta] Please ban comics by bigoted artists
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The argument of censorship is bullshit. If a comic is made to discriminate, it is basic decency to get rid of it. If an author makes themselves known by being discriminatory, no platform that cares about user safety and having a non-toxic community needs to get rid of them. It's as simple as that.
When you refuse that kind of "censorship", you are only making it clear that you like making this place unsafe for the people being attacked. Which makes you a piece of shit in my book.
So yeah, let's just ban these things that have no reason to exist, let alone on lemmy.
It is really sad that now, when someone mentions "freedom of speech" I automatically see it as a red flag, despite freedom of speech being a good thing. Nazis really mess up everything.
Freedom of Speech only means that the government cannot censor you.
It has nothing to do with what businesses, individuals, groups, or anyone else does.
When the United States runs a social media, then they can argue that all they want there.
The only caution with that is, private companies have a LOT of power and control right now. Easy to argue they shouldn’t, of course.
An example might be Visa enforcing “content guidelines” on any paid content on Steam providing NSFW games. Like, say, any game that acknowledges gay people exist. Payment processors and similar companies have claimed that’s a freedom of speech stance.
But yes, we can definitely keep it simple in forum communities constantly under human enforcement.
That is just the US legal definition and it is very flawed.
Freedom of speech, more broadly, is the ability to express an opinion without fear of retaliation. This implies constraints on social organizations of all sizes.
Freedom of speech should also be compatible with the paradox of intolerance (unless intolerance is chosen to be socially accepted), which implies censorship at many levels.
I agree, and It's all because of the distorted form of freedom of speech they have in USA, we generally don't have that problem in European democracies.
For instance FOX News is simply illegal by European standards, because they lie and distort reality.
In online spaces there also seems to be this wierd thinking of "if it isn't illegal you have to accept it".
Yes, which is really stupid, some people seem to think that freedom of expression means that sites have to allow their stupidity. Which is far from the case.
In Europe it is still there, far right extremists love to complain about cancel culture, about being censored, etc.
But yeah, they generally prefer to sue for defamation when someone criticises them
they know they are wrong, so they become defensive and tries to gaslight, its pretty much alt right tactic 101.
France unfortunately has billionaire-backed C-News which is the same flavor as Fox-news.
I don't really care either way as I just browse this place casually (not that I support bigotry), but I can't believe how many community outrage posts like this that this community has received in the past week or two. You'd think we were in a community dedicated to much more serious topics not one dedicated to 'Sunday comics.'
Not caring is supporting bigotry.
"I don't support nazis, I just don't care if they conquer the world" is not really a good sentence to say.
No, it's just not involving myself in internet drama.
You might have a point if we were actually talking about Nazis or someone like Trump and his ilk, but no were talking about some person with little influence who creates comics and posts them to this little community. I'm assuming this is about the guy who has all the thirsty looking comics with women in their underwear that someone claimed didn't support LGBT but didn't elaborate further? Forgive me for not joining in the tribalism and drawing my line in the sand over this egregious act.
The fact that you have to immediately rely on exaggerated appeals to emotion in order to even make your point should be a sign that you're going a little overboard.
So for you, discrimination and fascism should only be fought against when on a gigantic scale? As long as it's not the president of a country, you don't care?
"My neighbour is insulting black people in the street but you know, it's just a little racial slur a few times per day, it's not like it's actual Hitler living next to me, so I don't care"
How does that kind of logic even make sense?
I don't know why there are so many enlightened centrists on lemmy lately but it's really gross.
Can you actually point to the discrimination and fascism being posted here? You keep having to rely on hypotheticals and unrelated situations as your argument and have yet to make a single reference to the actual situation occurring here, all while acting like we're somehow pro-Nazi or pro-slavery if we don't automatically conform to your viewpoint.
https://lemmy.world/post/45557825
Here's an example.
https://lemmy.world/post/45513297
Here's another.
This user in particular is one of the main issues of this community, most of their posts are like that.
But I know that you're just asking for an example to try to attack it, and there's not really any point, because if you don't see the problem from that link, a conversation cannot do enough.
Oh, you know that do you? There's no point in devoting a single word in any of your dozen+ comments here to explain a position that you apparently feel so strongly about, while calling others "Nazis" for not automatically siding with you and your moral righteousness
Apparently you don't see the problem either since you can't seem to articulate it even once. You seem entirely reliant on logical fallacies, Nazis, and fascism to manipulate others into falling in line with whatever feeling you happen to be feeling about something. This is the same toxic bullshit that gave us things like the Satanic panic and the drug war and it's incredibly gross.
So I have to spell out for you that showing people fighting sexism as people who do not know what they want and just complain about everything, or that showing a woman as a weird primitive monkey as soon as she doesn't talk nicely and politely, is a problem?
You're just proving my point exactly, continue sealioning as much as you want
I agree with you
You know, part of the problem with situations like this conversation, I feel, is that it's always Nazis. It ends up being a cliche that, when something else happens, like the US starting to literally follow similar trends that led to the actual nazi party, it's already something people are tired of hearing and it hurts the message.
They end up not taking this seriously (because web comics, even shitty bigoted ones, are not as serious as what happened in nazi Germany) and then the other claim doesn't get taken seriously because "everything's Nazis with you people".
Just a thought i had when reading this.
This comes from the fact that there's less and less space between actual nazis and "just far-right extremists".
And I think people don't really see a point anymore in trying to find a difference, me included.
No. Support is support, and not caring is not caring. Redefining words won't change the outcome on the ground.
If you are standing by when an oppressor is oppressing, then you are participating in it.
Accepting the idea that being passive is neutral, is a horrible moral stance that is always advantaging the oppressors.
If it is your stance, you are participating in letting the oppressors do whatever they want, which is supporting them.
There's a reason why you can be condemned for seeing someone getting attacked and doing nothing. This "neutral" stance has been known to be a piece of shit stance for centuries.
That is not what participation means. Redefining yet more words won't change the outcome on the ground either.
This would seem to be the "duty to rescue". But there is no universal duty to rescue recognised in law - because there is no such duty recognised universally by people either. And where it is recognised, the punishment for failing to carry it out is less than the punishment for putting someone in harm's way, or harming them yourself.
This is, in fact, a very good way of seeing that "neutrality is aggression" is a minority, and wrong, belief.
You seem to be conflating legality with morality.
It being legal is a good suggestion that society hasn't decided it's on the same moral level as things that society has decided to make illegal. At any rate, the unviersal statement 'This “neutral” stance has been known to be a piece of shit stance for centuries' is wrong on this basis. If it were so obvious, so known, then, yes, I do think it would be illegal.
The same way marriage with children is legal in 34 states. Very moral.
So according to your logic, if you walk past someone being raped or murdered and you don't give a shit and move on, it's completely fine, because you're just being neutral? You would consider that not helping the victim, doesn't help the aggressor?
How do you even manage to convince yourself of such a logic?
No, it is not "completely fine" but it is not morally equivalent to committing the rape, and there are justified reasons for doing nothing: e.g. you cannot physically intervene, and are scared of the cops and so unwilling to call them.
I was never saying that it's completely the same, I was saying that it is supporting an aggressor to let them attack others without reacting. And yes, there are justified reasons, none of which is "I don't care"
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
I agree with the quote, but I take umbrage with it being used in this context.
There's nothing to be gained by forcing people to act in ways that they do not wish to act, or to think in ways that they do not wish to think.
The way you're using that quote is basically saying, "Agree with me, and think the way I tell you to think, or you're a bad person".
That is evil, and people of good conscience should not agree with you. It is better to allow you to think that they are a bad person rather than to allow you to have control over their morality.
Is bigotry not evil by your standards?
OK?
The quote highlights that passive inaction is as dangerous as active malice. It encourages taking a stand against wrongdoing rather than remaining neutral.
Apathy is an oppressor's greatest weapon.
You may not think you're supporting them, but silence is complicity. And if you're complicit with it, you tacitly support it, otherwise you'd have an opinion on it.
They have plenty of spaces of their own to post and like the content we don't want here. They feel a need to spread it though, to harm others because at the basis of it all, that's what they want to do whether they realize it or not.