• laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
    166·
    5 months ago

    Aw, man. I think Vaxry’s got entrapped here.

    He is saying that if nothing can sway you from an opinion, then it is a belief, including being 100% opposed to genocide.

    (Please note: I don’t side with genocide!!! But I understand his point. Read on.)

    I think he’s the positions armchair arguing type, not necessarily the evil type.

    I can totally see him say “If a group of people’s solely reason to exist is to exterminate the rest of the human race, if that’s all they think about, if all they do is to accomplish that - induce terror, kill babies, spew propaganda, castrate humans of all races; then it’s safe to say that that group of people should not exist and it should be exterminated.”

    That’s an extremely wild scenario, of course! But I think that’s what this guy is saying. We may find genocide in general heinous, but he won’t say that all genocides are bad because of thought examples like the above one.

    Then the other party takes that personally, and extrapolates that Vaxry is in favor of exterminating all trans people - something he didn’t say or mean.

    My two cents.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      103·
      5 months ago

      That discussion didn’t come out of the blue, though. It was in the aftermath of behavior on his Discord where his position was “I didn’t say the things and I can’t moderate”. Also, as a person of Polish descent who follows Polish politics probably a bit closer than the average person, I see a pattern of PiS party ideology / common behavior by PiS supporters of being at the far right and the claiming ignorance when their behavior leads to bad press.