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user-inactivated  ·  2291 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "This is why they hate us" - The Other Tech Bubble

Going from here to a whole bunch of problems we know jack shit about,are totally unqualified to solve, and which can only be explained to us in language that makes no sense to us are now, somehow, our problems and, worse, often they're our fault to where did all these nazis come from we thought global communication would give us enlightened cosmopolitans not nazis has been a rough ride for everyone. You're not looking at malice, you're looking at something somewhere between denial and confusion.





coffeesp00ns  ·  2290 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    where did all these nazis come from we thought global communication would give us enlightened cosmopolitans not nazis

Global communication isn't the problem. Allowing the people on that global communication platform to place nazi doctrines on an even footing with more peaceful doctrines and expecting them to play nice is the problem. It is a global scale version of what happened in Europe during the interwar period, and the only people who didn't see it were the people who didn't know their history, and the people who thought it would somehow be different this time.

Unfortunately, in this case, those who don't know their history are currently in the process of repeating it, and people like me are in the crossfire. Fuck, I'm lucky. At least I'm not a trans woman of colour - talk about an ugly death rate.

I know Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice what could equally be attributed to stupidity. In this case, it's both a willful stupidity and a latent malice, and honestly the only reasonable response to "We didn't know" is "Only because you ignored us trying to tell you."