It’s hot and raining here. So I guess we have a monsoon season now. Climate change is just great…

This post is for casual conversation if you don’t feel like making a post of your own.

  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I’m catching heat because a friend of Mine apparently posted some kind of Nazi propaganda as a joke. So I told them to apologise and mean it. But they don’t wanna apologise, because they say nobody’s gonna believe they’re being genuine. But if they don’t apologise, I’m gonna tell them I won’t be their friend. I don’t fuck with Nazi shit.

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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      22 days ago

      What a strange logic. Are they saying no one is going to believe that they are genuine because they are in fact not genuine?

      I went to university in the early 2000s when “ironic” edgelord posting was pretty popular. It became clear pretty quickly that this was a recruiting tactic to the far right. I try not to be too judgey about people who don’t understand this because I didn’t understand it back then either. I should have known better but didn’t, and I am ashamed. I thought the jokes were so absurd it was clear they were meant to be poking fun at the far right but they were often sincere 😭

      Because it was a mistake (out of ignorance) I would have jumped at the opportunity to apologize if someone called me out. In fact, it wasn’t until I was called out that I was like, “Wait, we aren’t all in on this joke? This hurts people’s feelings and makes them feel unsafe? I don’t like that!”. Since then I have become more aware of what signals I give to others based on my participation/association/or even not speaking out on problematic things. I can’t imagine a situation where an apology would have been the wrong thing to do. Sure, it could result in people telling me they don’t forgive me instead of just ignoring me and that hurts but it doesn’t hurt as much as enduring Nazi shit.