• doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    8 days ago

    I do think that we can ignore the opinions of people whose lifestyles we disagree with. One might ignore a priest, one might ignore a CEO of a data gathering corp, one might ignore a police officer, one might ignore an ugly OF whore. Who cares?

    • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      You deserve an explanation. This comic doesn’t communicate that you can’t ignore people you disagree with. It points out that the response she received was strange, given the context. It’s kind of like how your response to this comic is kind of strange, given the context. In short, you are being downvoted because what you said was super dumb in this context, and people don’t like it. Hope that helps.

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      8 days ago

      There’s a difference between A) ignoring the opinions of a particular fascist and B) ignoring a year-over-year increase in the population of people openly expressing fascist opinions.

      It’s kind of like a tumor. As inconvenient as it might be, if it’s not hurting you worse than the surgery to remove it, then you should ignore it. If it starts growing, however… you probably shouldn’t ignore that.