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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter that they've been convinced. I have access to all the same media, and I haven't been convinced to join in with abusing people.

That's because I have good Critical Thinking Skills, and I use them, especially to guide my morality to follow what I know is right, and not just what my worst emotions tell me. If I start to feel bigoted towards someone, I have the self-awareness to recognize it, and direct my thinking in a better direction.

MAGAs, and other stupid people, just accept their bigoted feelings, and act on them. Good people will suppress those feelings, and substitute moral and ethical thinking instead, and train their brain to think that way. It's harder that just reacting to your emotions, but becoming a mature, positively-comtributing member of society takes effort.

So I don't accept excuses like they needed the money, or they were only following orders, etc. They knew what they were signing up for, and most, if not all, did it because they saw a chance to wield evil power over vulnerable innocent people.

They are evil people, and defending them is evil as well.