Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'

• blah3166@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It may not be common, but it does happen:

  • My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement & how I got out | Christian Picciolini | TEDxMileHigh
  • Reformed racist expresses regret for previous life with KKK
  • My Life Inside A Neo-Nazi Group

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• lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are there other incurable states of mind that would require people to be shunned forever?

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  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    yeah, arguing in bad faith

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope, just fascism.

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• zpiritual@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is it something they inherently do? No. Is it something they can, of course just like anyone evolve over time. Especially when you’re into something just to be edgy.

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  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    so it’s OK to be one as long as you’re just trying to be edgy? why are white men always left off the hook?

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s not even close to remotely what they said. They said it’s easy to become one if you’re trying to be edgy. They never said it was OK. They said you can change and get out of it. If you were just doing it to be edgy, and not because you believed white people are superior, then it’s easier to change.

      Argue in good faith if you’re going to argue. Don’t change people’s words to fight a strawman. It only makes you look stupid.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I watched a documentary recently about a former skin head who was getting his tattoos removed because he hated them because he didn’t believe that stuff anymore. I don’t remember his age, but he had to be in his 30s.

  You don’t “grow out of it” but you can learn that you were wrong. I’m not saying that anyone should support pewdeepie, but it should be encouraged when people change their views like that. Even if he’s being dishonest, it should be encouraged that he’s telling others it’s wrong, and also that it’s more beneficial to not do that.

  The goal should not be revenge, it should be less hate. Revenge only puts us further away from what we supposedly want.

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  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    if anyone wanted revenge on him, it would be extremely easy for someone to find him and do him harm. stop trying to make cancel culture against white men a real thing. Felix is one of the richest YouTubers in the world. he would be unemployed if the reality you’re painting existed.

    let’s stop acting like Nazis need to be personally hugged and kissed on the forehead until they stop being violent

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      stop trying to make cancel culture against white men a real thing.

      Where did I say that? I just said revenge doesn’t gain us anything if it prevents people from becoming less asshole, or spreading that behavior.

      let’s stop acting like Nazis need to be personally hugged and kissed on the forehead until they stop being violent

      Let’s stop acting like former Nazis are just as bad as existing ones. Unless you’re going to kill him, shut the fuck up. He exists and is going to use his platform, whether you like it or not. I’d rather it not be used to promote Nazism.

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