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Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by BryantD on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:21PM (#32708113)
This is a serious suggestion: if you are concerned about blanket accusations, it’s helpful to avoid blanket statements like “Activists hurl around the Nazi label…”

Some people do use that term with insufficient care. Some people use it carefully. Some people use it carefully but disagree with you about who it reasonably applies to.

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Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by BuyMyBitcoins on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:43PM (#32708322)
I think this might be a case of language being interpreted in an unintended way.

I’m talking about a subset of all activists, and I didn’t think I necessarily needed to qualify a specific amount or to specify an affiliation in order to declare that such people exist and they follow this kind of behavior. I also specifically wanted to avoid charging a particular organized group of this.

In that sense I don’t feel like I’m making a blanket accusation against defined people, but rather, claiming the behavior is being exhibited by some segment of activists.

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