Edit: Rule has been replaced.

Old title was “An addendum to the rules. No more using the words “Nazi” or “Fascist”.”

The words Nazi and Fascist have no meaning. No one is referring to 1940s Germany or 1930s Italy. It’s just name-calling at this point. You can see this all over this sub.

So the banned words has been extended from just stuff like racial slurs to include Nazi and Fascist.

Yes, I do realize this is a slippery slope, but hopefully any meaning you wanted to impart can still be done without the kindergarten-level name-calling.

Credit to https://lemm.ee/u/dukethorion@lemmy.world for the idea.

Hell of a lot better than my “Conservatives Only” tag idea or banning bad faith arguments. It’s a clear cut rule that should help with a problem without cutting down on actual discussions.

If you have any feedback/complaints/raging against the machine/questions, feel free to leave them here.

  • ThrowawayOPM
    38·
    8 months ago

    Its what opened my eyes to how the word has no real meaning. If wanting to genocide jews doesn’t make you a nazi, but not wanting women hurt does, what does nazi even mean?

    • PizzaMan
      62·
      8 months ago

      If wanting to genocide jews doesn’t make you a nazi

      Wanting genocide of any kind makes you a nazi. And it ain’t leftists calling for genocide/supporting genocide.

      • ThrowawayOPM
        25·
        8 months ago

        Go read the Hamas charter. Heres a direct link. https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-charter-–-ideology-behind-massacre

        A ceasefire will result in the genocide of every non-muslim in Israel. That is the promise of Hamas.

        And don’t think I haven’t noticed you only care about civilians when they’re Muslim. What happened to the Jews and Christians and Druze and everyone else in Palestine, Pizzaman? What happened? Do you care about them?

        • PizzaMan
          62·
          8 months ago

          Go read the Hamas charter

          The Hamas charter has nothing to do with leftism.

          A ceasefire will result in the genocide of every non-muslim in Israel.

          I’ve already explained this to you, no it will not.

          And don’t think I haven’t noticed you only care about civilians when they’re Muslim

          This is a lie.

          What happened to the Jews and Christians and Druze and everyone else in Palestine, Pizzaman? What happened? Do you care about them?

          They’re getting bombed/killed just the same. And it’s wrong. I have always said so. When I say “civilians are being killed by Isreal” I’m including everyone.

          But again, you don’t care for nuance, you just want to call leftists nazis.

          • ThrowawayOPM
            28·
            8 months ago

            I’m not going to go line by line, but this biy is so easily correctable.

            They’re getting bombed just the same. And it’s wrong. I have always said so. When I say “civilians are being killed by Isreal” I’m including everyone.

            The demographics of Gaza Strip are 98%-99% Sunni Muslim. Arab Christian 0.1%, and the rest are labelled other.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Palestine#Religions_2

            You can’t bomb people who are already dead.

            So again, pizzaman.

            What happened to the Jews and Christians and Druze and everyone else in Palestine? Was there a genocide?

            • PizzaMan
              53·
              8 months ago

              What happened to the Jews and Christians and Druze and everyone else in Palestine, Pizzaman? What happened? Do you care about them?

              They’re getting bombed/killed just the same. And it’s wrong. I have always said so. When I say “civilians are being killed by Isreal” I’m including everyone.

              But again, you don’t care for nuance, you just want to call leftists nazis.

                  • ThrowawayOPM
                    15·
                    8 months ago

                    Let me make plain. They have genocided everyone they could get their hands on that wasn’t sunni muslim.

                    You can’t bomb the dead.

      • ThrowawayOPM
        29·
        8 months ago

        I know exactly what it means. It means lefties want to genocide jews and hurt women, while accusing the right of not wanting that. Its a completely overused, abused, and misused term.

        I’ve given everyone a better alternative, actually saying why its bad instead of just namecalling. If the terms still means something, surely you can spell out why you think conservatives are nazis, or why a policy is fascist. Hell, you can still say “this is 1940s Germany” if you want, I was very clear on it only being those two words.