American groups have helped to establish global web who share ideas and funding in bid to restrict gay and trans rights
      • Betch@lemmy.world
        121·
        1 year ago

        We’re not the people you need to be discussing with. You need to be discussing with the other conservative and religious people who are actual nazis.

          • guyman@lemmy.world
            132·
            1 year ago

            People are calling them Nazis because they support fascism.

            Ask any republican if they’d rather live in a democratic society that is communist or a fascist one that is capitalist and all of them will say they prefer fascism.

            They also support religious nationalism and governing based on emotions rather than logic and reason.

            There are many parallels between republicans and Nazis. This is why the overwhelming majority of neo-nazis are conservative.

          • Lydia_K@lemmy.world
            71·
            1 year ago

            The people you are supporting and voting for have openly called for violence and death to be visited upon myself and my family simply because of who we are andwho we love.

            The GOP is a ship, and you are voluntarily on that, working to help that ship, the people steering that ship, setting it’s direction, aiming it’s guns, they are literally fascists, bigots, and often literal nazis. You work on that ship, do you not see why you are seen as one of them irregardless of weather or not you directly believe such hateful things?

            Get off that ship, you can still be a “conservative” but you have to stop supporting those people or you are one of them.

              • Lydia_K@lemmy.world
                52·
                1 year ago

                I’m not going to go well into the details because it’s getting off the point but as a few examples:

                “A Republican candidate running for a seat in Oklahoma’s state House once said it is ‘totally just’ to kill gay people in comments that have resurfaced amid his campaign.”

                “The Trump-endorsed Republican candidate in South Carolina’s4th Congressional District called for the arrest and execution of those who advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and the protection of trans children.”

                former Republican state representative Robert Foster: “I think they need to be lined up against [a] wall before a firing squad to be sent to an early judgment.”

                There are plenty more out there like this, and an absolute avalanche of them couched in the standard political double speak and dog whistles that we are all used to.

                Now I’m sure you PERSONALLY did not vote for any of these people directly, but these are the representatives of the GOP, this is what I mean by you being on the ship with them. You may not be the person steering the ship, or loading the guns, or pulling the trigger, but you are on the ship advocating for violence and murder, passing laws that are leading to death and suffer and pushing to make more of them. You are saying that because you are swabbing the deck and cooking the meals you don’t deserve to be lumped in with nazis who are running the ship.

                Get off the ship.