i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • galloog1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is a decent argument historically that communism and other left movements are extremist, racist, and anti-lgbtq. When you start banning concepts, you open your communities up to several things.

    1. Group think
    2. Banning of other radical ideologies that you may agree with
    3. You alienate those people from exposure to better concepts
    4. You jump start compaction cycles for large scale propaganda organizations that could lead to actual violence
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        1 year ago

        I provided four reasons why this was relevant and you jumped from communism to whataboutism? Talk about being intellectually lazy (Or a state-sponsored account)

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          You linked “communism” and “left movements” to “banning concepts” as if they go hand in hand.

          You’re question begging hard, and all of your “reasons” are built on top of propaganda and logical fallacies.

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            1 year ago

            Left-leaning radical ideologies are banned all the time and usually use the same laws set up to ban far-right movements. I am not begging the question but feel free to continue spouting off the names of logical fallacies. I almost have a bingo.

            I deal with propaganda and strategic messaging professionally, so by all means attempt to lecture.