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[meta] Please ban comics by bigoted artists
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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
Oh you're fighting sexism? So why have all your analogies been about Nazis, racism, bigotry, and fascism up until this point? This is literally the first time you've mentioned it after commenting here all day.
Frankly, it seems like you don't know what you're angry about, just that you're angry and everyone else better fall in line or face your wrath. You saw something you don't like, overreacted on some moral crusade, and now want to retroactively apply some justification to legitimize it.
Remember this all began with me saying I didnt really care either way what happens to users like him, and you telling me that I was "supporting bigotry" and implied I'm a nazi supporter? Now that I finally dragged an actual statement out of you, it turns out it's really just about some horny dude depicting too much of the female body in his drawings. That's what you've been comparing to the genocide of millions of people and hundreds of years of enslavement of another people all day. 🙄
Okay, I can't believe I have to even explain that.
Misogyny is about discriminating against women. Racism is about discriminating based on "race". Xenophobia is about discriminating based on nationality/origin.
All of those are forms of discrimination. They're all bigotry. And they're all related in modern times to fascism, yes. And if you don't agree, then you're obviously bullshitting because there is no way you would have missed how discrimination has evolved over the past decades, with people that would have used the same rhetoric as you back then, now doing nazi salutes, committing genocide and exterminating minorities.
If you don't see the link - well, then you do, but you're full of shit. Once again, sealioning.
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.
In the same way, I would expect someone who argues that "marriage with children is immoral" to offer a better argument than "we've known it's wrong for centuries" when, apparently, we have not.
Are you saying that child marriage is moral because its legal?
No, and nothing I said implied I did.
"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."
Bro
Looks like adequate words to indicate I am not saying that "not illegal => moral" to me. I've spelled it out for you now, but next time you read something like that, try to remember that you misunderstood this one.
We all see what you are defending.
Mr. Neutral
I've just told you exactly what I'm not defending, so I'd bloody hope you see. Unfortunately you've displayed a level of reading comprehension that gives me no hope for it.
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"
So, if it's not "completely the same", it would be fair enough to say that "support is support" and "not caring is not caring", right?
Which specific reasons are justified is a separate topic, and depends on the specific action being considered.
No it wouldn't because everything is not black and white. Support has different shapes, it's not all about carrying a sign that says "I support ". Inaction is a form of support, that is not the same as actually doing the thing. Not caring is a form of support when it's about an asymmetrical interaction, where a side is advantaged above the other, because "not caring" means that you are fine with the expected outcome of the dominant side winning. When this side is bigotry, you are fine with bigotry, which makes you a bigot (because to not be a bigot, you need to see bigotry as a problem). If you don't care about a rapist trying to rape someone, then you are fine with the conclusion of the victim being raped, which means that you support rape.
The only time where not caring means being neutral, is when the outcomes are completely and equally random. You can not care about flipping a coin if it's just 50/50. But that's not the case when it comes to things like discrimination, where it's clearly established that people discriminating are advantaged over people being discriminated against. If you don't care, then you're fine with discrimination, and you are supporting it. Even if you're not screaming that minorities should die.
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?
A, you've missed the point completely. B, you're moving the goalposts. And C, you're forgetting the possible charitable view of things in that a person who is not aware of the original artist's bigotry finding something that they posted funny and sharing it with other people.
Are we not discussing banning bigotry on here?
Are we not discussing banning bigotry on here?
By allowing a bigots non-bigoted work to be promoted, you promote a bigoted artist.
In context of the conversation, you're saying there's nothing to be gained by banning comics from racist artists.
You sure? Because in response to your statement saying you don't have an opinion (ie, you're doing nothing), it means that you're allowing bad to happen due to apathy (that's assuming you see yourself as a good person, if you're not, disregard).
One of these days I'm going to create /c/selfawarewolves...
Twist yourself up like a pretzel all you want, but at least listen to what you're saying and think about it for more than 5 seconds. Because you're supporting people who spread bigotry by arguing against banning them, and trying to take the moral high ground.
In specific context, I am not arguing against or for banning comics.
I personally am for banning people that are bigoted, and especially when their bigotry is hidden away from their art so that I might find myself enjoying art from an artist that I would personally find detestable.
What I am arguing against is the specific use of the phrase "All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing" as a hammer to bludgeon somebody else into accepting a specific viewpoint as the superior one.
I've said it before in other ways and I will say it again that if you give me the choice between being your bitch and being an asshole, I will pick asshole every single time because I value my right to choose above what you claim is an absolute truth.
It's quite comical to me that people cannot see that these are two separate conversations, and the separation of the conversation happened long before I waded into it.
OK?
The quote highlights that passive inaction is as dangerous as active malice. It encourages taking a stand against wrongdoing rather than remaining neutral.
But it isn't as dangerous as active malice. Punching someone in the face is more dangerous than watching someone punch another in the face.
Ok?
Y'see, when I said "OK" it's because I didn't disagree with the quote, but didn't see the relevance. Does your "Ok" mean you don't disagree? I directly contradicted you though so that'd be strange.
You didn't contradict me you agreed.
You said it isn't as dangerous. Implying you understand it is, in fact, dangerous.
Like Spiderman says right before he realizes his actions allowed his uncles death, "I missed the part where thats my problem."
I'm guessing you agree with Spiderman's inaction?
You said:
Now you say:
Which is it? Is it as dangerous, or less dangerous?
Is it dangerous?
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.