I came across a post on Reddit showing Mussolini at the end of his career, specifically him hanged from his ankles in the Piazzale Loreto. I left a comment, “we didn’t get the chance to do this with Hitler, but we should make this traditional.” Yes, not the most benign comment, but far “threatening violence or physical harm,” at least I think so. A bot must have come across that and thought “beep boop,” because suddenly my account was permanently banned. It’s honestly insulting that a human took no part in this process.
Also keep in mind that the chuds have been making a concerted push to go around Reddit and report every anti-fascist post and comment they can find. Between that and the recent Reddit crackdown against anything Luigi related, the place is quickly turning into StormFront 2.0.
No, not our Steve Huffman. He’d never do anything unethical, much less authoritarian.
Mussolini at the end of his career
Hehe. Why is that phrasing so funny?
What about Hitler losing his job?
I don’t know who was worse, Hitler or the guy that fired him.
This is an automoderator do not reply. You are permanently banned for harassment. This was done without the support of humans. Beep boop bye
Congratulations on your rejection by fascists!
While I agree with you in general, let’s not pretend the implication isn’t obvious. Reddit just doesn’t like that implication, and that’s telling us a lot about Reddit.
- A human was involved in the process at some point
- Your comment was “threatening violence or physical harm”
- In my opinion there’s nothing wrong with threatening Nazis with “violence or physical harm” - they’re Nazis, their entire schtick is genocide, how do people think that they’re supposed to be dealt with, tea and cakes? Chamberlain tried that, didn’t work. What did work was killing a whole bunch of them. For my entire childhood and most of my adult life people were lauded for the effort of killing Nazis or dying in the attempt.
Cake or death!?
Can you name a single person who is threatened by a democratically decided punishment for organizing genocide.
At worst its a statement in support of using systematic violence as a punishment for crimes against humanity. But discussion isn’t a threat.
Saying: “Everyone who think x, must be killed” is a threat to violence.
Hitler did not just think racist things. He was not only expressing himself or identifying as a Nazi. He was unmistakable guilty of organizing a genocide.
There are many self identifying nazis today but there is no demographic of people who belong to the specific group that fits actual Hitler and actual mussolini.
I can think of a handful alive today that are heading that way but even if those empires broke down tomorow they would not have committed enough evil to qualify.
Can you name a single person who is threatened by a democratically decided punishment for organizing genocide.
If I understand your question correctly: Radovan Karadžić
Yeah that seems to check out.
Wikipedia states he is imprisoned for life for the crime of genocide.
That outcome personally has my preference but to bring it to the matter at hand.
Op basically suggest that rather then incarceration for life they should be given the death penalty.
I cant see such thing as a threat. Because in so many “modern” places its the status quo. Definitely not as a offending expression to be banned.
Til the day we as a species evolve to a post death penalty world without state monopoly on violence such discussion are as normal as humanity itself.
You’re missing the bit where NATO had to go in and participate in the war to prevent further ‘ethnic cleansing’ by the Serbs.
War crimes trials only happen after the war is concluded.
As for OP, what they’re doing is saying fascists actively being fascists deserve death. It’s not like people who are currently supporting fascism can’t stop being fascists. The choice is up to them.
I mean, the rules say that encouraging violence is not accepted. Whether the violence is justified or not does not factor here, it still is encouraging violence so the ban is appropriate.
Just because it’s locally consistent with its own rules does not mean it’s globally appropriate in an ethical sense. I believe that’s the point being made here.
Further to that, on reddit that comment would have been acceptable if targeted at Muslim “terrorists”, or Soviets, or any number of the acceptable targets as decided by “centrists”.
Excellent point. I didn’t think of that. If we can say, “kill all terrorists,” we should be able to say, “kill all fascists” because, as we all know, fascists are terrorists.
This caused me to look up the death of Mussolini and, holy shit, old American newsreels didn’t fuck around.
They’re saying the quiet part out loud at this point.
