alt-text for thumbnail: text saying “blocking fascists is self-care” next to an antifascist flag on a 2d digital art wooden background
alt-text for thumbnail: text saying “blocking fascists is self-care” next to an antifascist flag on a 2d digital art wooden background
this is answered in the video
I watched it but I didn’t find the reasons compelling. That it’s difficult or possibly stressful doesn’t really interact with the reasons I have for doing it.
Maybe you can elaborate on what you mean and how you think the video addresses this?
“It takes longer to disprove one than make it.”
if you spend time disproving their comments, they will simply make more because if you are wasting your time disproving them then you aren’t working on building social structures to resist them. It is gifting them power.
I will now block you so I can focus on productive discussions.
OK do whatever you want but that is a weirdly aggressive approach to discourse.
Disputing misinformation is a form of social power, and realistically I’m not going to spend my online time organizing—it’s a form of recreation, and it doesn’t really compete with my work time. I don’t see those two things as competing. Regardless of what I do they will keep spreading misinformation but if people see the rebuttal they will be primed to reject it when they see it again even if I don’t have the time to respond to every one.
Weird spin. It looked like a productive and friendly conversation – and they even bothered to watch the video! Do you block everyone that challenges anything you say? That’s not blocking fascism, that’s backing yourself into a carefully curated echo chamber.
I don’t.