Big inspiration for the question is the assertion I’ve seen on Lemmy a few times that this user base is as bad/misogynistic/hateful. But also just curious.

    • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.worldOP
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      Not everyone who uses Lemmy is a tankie, right? Yeah the worst users on the 4chan spectrum are literally the worst humans, agreed. Used to be plenty of good shit on there though. Granted I used it most a decade+ ago. I’m a leftist and nothing I’ve ever seen there has swayed me from that stance.

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      21 hours ago

      Not a Nazi

      Degenerate

      You’re using concepts the Nazis used heavily in the same way that they did, just against them. You might want to interrogate that.

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          We live in a world where I’m now seeing various slurs that originated in Nazi circles being used as regular slang.

          “Degenerate” as an insult is based in social degeneration theory, notably something coined by the original Nazi party to describe people they classed as sub-human, and they thought were leading to the degeneration of society.

          Forgive me for not liking when people use concepts coined by the Nazis in the same ways the Nazis used them, just on different groups. It’s not like classing people as sub-humans has lead to problems in the past or anything.

          Yes, fuck Nazis, but also fuck Nazi ideas, and maybe we shouldn’t be using them.