Background Pony #D37B
ACAB is a slogan used by a movement/organization and as it tars entire groups of people it’s roughly equivalent to certain far-right slogans you presumably abhor. One could better avoid semantics by simply saying “far-left” but evidence has already been posted about how BLM (the organization, not the statement as apparently a distinction keeps being drawn) has overtly Marxist leadership. I’m pretty sure that if an organization was pushing a slogan around and one of its top leaders had said “I think Hitler’s a pretty cool guy” the treatment would be very different here.
You can’t call something a “slippery slope” and assume that’s an argument and if anything it indicates that perhaps the “slippery slope” is less of a fallacy then people thought. The administration of the site has taken a procedurally stricter stance in banning edgy or political content it disagrees with. In the space of a few weeks we moved from “images downplaying BLM will be deleted” to a permanent “Nazi pictures that are cool or cute will be deleted.” This slope is indeed very slippery and I don’t see the site slowing in its sliding.
It is highly disingenuous to call “ACAB” an ideology, or to broadly say “communism”.
ACAB is a slogan used by a movement/organization and as it tars entire groups of people it’s roughly equivalent to certain far-right slogans you presumably abhor. One could better avoid semantics by simply saying “far-left” but evidence has already been posted about how BLM (the organization, not the statement as apparently a distinction keeps being drawn) has overtly Marxist leadership. I’m pretty sure that if an organization was pushing a slogan around and one of its top leaders had said “I think Hitler’s a pretty cool guy” the treatment would be very different here.
I believe it’s a slippery slope to assume we’ll ban some unknown future thing there is outrage over
You can’t call something a “slippery slope” and assume that’s an argument and if anything it indicates that perhaps the “slippery slope” is less of a fallacy then people thought. The administration of the site has taken a procedurally stricter stance in banning edgy or political content it disagrees with. In the space of a few weeks we moved from “images downplaying BLM will be deleted” to a permanent “Nazi pictures that are cool or cute will be deleted.” This slope is indeed very slippery and I don’t see the site slowing in its sliding.
