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Holidays are going to be fun (lemmy.nz)
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[-] teslekova@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

That's the weird thing. There's millions of people who would never hurt anybody up close and personal, but happy to keep hurting people far away by their choices. The same disconnect often applies to the negative consequences that hit them.

In those cases, if they're family, and you're used to seeing them, you can find yourself having superficially friendly interactions, they will be genuinely happy to see you, etc... And they will vote for death camps without a single pang of conscience because it seems like the normal thing they've always done.

I don't think they're the majority, but they're certainly numerous enough to be the primary enablers of a fascist takeover.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The ‘white moderate’

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

[-] echo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

Yep... and the only way we de-normalize it is to quit passively allowing it.

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