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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.
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Anywhere that is accepting of Nazis becomes a Nazi place. Probably why the church is infested with them.
Is every place that accepts socialists a socialist place? Every place with queer folk a gay place?
I had a formerly liberal friend go down a dark path, so I invited them over for dinner with my queer, socialist pals to try to show them a sense of community and opinions that were lacking in their online echo chamber. Did my place become a nazi house?
It's about acceptance.
If people accept nazis at the bar it becomes a nazi bar. Common it's not that hard to understand.
My shower thought wasn't that hard to understand either, which was about taking control of spaces rather than treating a nazi like the single drop that spoils the batch.
If you carefully read my comment, to your comment, you might have something to answer instead of trying to shifting the goalpoast to your shower thought.
Is it shifting the goalpost when I'm trying to bring a conversation back to my original point?
Admittedly, it's hard to keep track of every thread in this discussion, which is why I'm trying to stick to reason I posted.
In this case, yes it is.
Got it. Unshifting goalposts is shifting the goalposts now.
Was your friend a nazi or sympathetic to Nazi ideologies? If so, did your nazi friend realize that his Nazi beliefs sucked and at least left them behind? Or did they normalize and promote those beliefs? If they did the latter and you still invite them, your place might be a Nazi house.
Or is your friend a run of the mill conservative? Then not likely a Nazi.
They did try to promote their beliefs online and were fully into Q Anon and Alex jones.
I disagree with the complete lack of nuance, we invited them with the understanding that they weren't allowed to bring up any opinions against any group of people, as sort of soft intervention.
They've since come out as non-binary and seem to have dropped the bullshit. We're not close anymore, though.
In the end, I saw the opportunity to help get rid of a nazi. It's not a contagious disease anymore than not being a nazi.
Glad they dropped the bullshit. You and they done good, regardless of where your friendship currently is.
"I'll take 'Things That Never Happened' for $100, Alex."
If you went through covid without anyone you knew going down the crazy hole, you must not know many people.