• nightshade [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    small group of people deciding what's acceptable

    In a community that refuses to do anything about Nazis, that small group of people is the Nazis. There's a reason that nobody with the barest minimum of compassion can be found in any communities that allow them. Freedom to express yourself as a minority does not meaningfully exist if you're likely to encounter genocidal rhetoric in response.

    In the 1950s, these same people would be saying that segregation isn't oppressive because it counts as the exercise of voluntary association.