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Sarcastically, which defeats the whole point. If sarcasm is being used as a thin shield to promote nazism, that doesn't do anything to deny that. In fact, it only reinforces that interpretation. And I don't give safe harbor to fascists.
Assume this person is being earnest in both comments. Notice how, when doing that, the second comment now changes to confirming that they're being a Nazi sympathizer.
White supremacists used irony in a way that broke peoples brains about it. We get you're in the anti-nazi camp that's great! So are you doing anything about it or just posting?
By allowing Nazis to coopt sarcasm, you've just given up cultural territory to the Nazis. Not everyone gets sarcasm, that's okay, but don't let Nazis set the tone of our interactions on the left
No, I really want people to use /s tag. But people don't like it when I bring it up. They either thinks it ruins the fun or that because it's a self-adopt thing that it's doomed to failure. Ya know, like how languages change. A thing that happens constantly.
Tone indicators don't need to be used to excess, but using the sarcasm tag when you're pretending to be horrible just saves everyone the headache of trying to guess if you're being serious or not.
I get it, I'll try to be more conscious about it myself.
Get a brain.
I have one. I use it to see what happened in the past and adjust how I act based on the future I want to see in the world.
Oh! Did you mean that I should use it to reduce social tension as a approximation for social cohesion? Not gonna fucking do that. I prefer real social cohesion, where I can trust that those around me aren't nazis. And not because I hope they aren't, either.
You are not saving the world by overreacting to a joke.
Holy shit! How could I have not known that? /s
Because of your missing brain.
Edit: I'm sorry that I came at you insulting. You are against Nazis which means we are on the same side.
I still think you are overreacting to a joke but I overreacted to your overreaction which makes me also wrong.
I can understand your state of mind. I'm also panicking when I see where the world is heading, but going at each others throats isn't the solution to that.
So I was in the wrong and I apologize.
Thank you. I was definitely going too big yesterday as well. I can't delete anything, cause I stand by it all, but I was lashing out a bit too hard. Pissing people off like this probably has backlash effects.
Next time I'll try clarifying why I'm asking if the person is being sarcastic before going off like this.
Happens to everyone, the stakes are very high
I'm sorry mate but if you read anything sarcastic as earnest, it'll mean something totally different. I just think you're inventing an enemy here 🤷♂️
No, I'm acting knowing the strategy of an enemy to the encounters I have on an anonymous social platform.
If you think that someone genuinely asking if something is sarcastic can be responded to with a sarcastic response and that will somehow clear the air... then you spend a lot of time around people that you know well. I don't know you people, you don't get the benefit of the doubt enough to joke about being a fascist.