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However, if you extended the olive branch and said, “Okay, let’s try this, here’s the deal.” then you have the undeniable high ground if the other side continues to sour afterward.
 
We have the undeniable high ground right now.  
Only one side of this attempted to deplatform derpibooru for not getting their way.
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You guys know the admins and mods are pretending that they are fighting bigotry or nazism or something, something with a nice and easy “evil” definition to it but in reality they are fighting for authoritarianism.  
They want us to follow their party line and if you are not willing you will be removed
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How would one compromise on this issue, exactly? In my opinion, censorship of anything is a bad thing.
This is a good question.
How is compromise possible when what we wanted all along is less censorship, so we don’t have to feel like we can’t even post what we want to post?
It’s trying to see past yourself and understand the opposing sentiment. It’s shedding selfishness. What’s giving up the Nazi swastika if it means there’s a chance to return to cohesive function all around?
Now, I get it, I keep saying I get it, the concern is the opposition moving onto the next thing. However, if you extended the olive branch and said, “Okay, let’s try this, here’s the deal.” then you have the undeniable high ground if the other side continues to sour afterward.
Then if a fight is still necessary, more people are inclined to stand with the side that showed more self restraint.
Or maybe I’m wrong too, but hell, we’re human.
 
I can see how that would work. Give up something small to prevent bigger things from disappearing. Lose the battle to win the war, I suppose?  
One problem I see is that the opposition, basically with some of their people using dirty tactics, would still overwhelm us next time even if we gave them a little bit of leeway.
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They don’t look past their own sentiments. They are extorting things from us. The chance of “return to cohesive function” is needed only because THEY took it away from everybody.
 
Again, listen clearly to us, there are multiple people asking you already:  
HOW THIS IS A COMPROMISE  
Answer that and you might get a treatment as anything else as not so-sneaky agent, that thinks he can hide behind a street sign.
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What’s giving up the Nazi swastika if it means there’s a chance to return to cohesive function all around?
 
That’s the point - there is NO CHANCE to go back. Pro-censorship LIVES by censoring “problematic” content and if you censor something than you will EMBOLDEN them for more.  
However, if you extended the olive branch and said, “Okay, let’s try this, here’s the deal.” then you have the undeniable high ground if the other side continues to sour afterward.
 
There’s no compromise that will satisfy both sides. This issue is just that polarizing.  
Or maybe I’m wrong too, but hell, we’re human.
 
Or maybe you are an AI, who knows…
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“Positive depictions of Aryanne” are banned. I am not a Nazi and never will be, despite the kindergarten tier insistence that anyone who opposes censorship is one. I have no interest in pushing Nazi stuff when I draw Aryanne. I haven’t even drawn her in a long time.
 
It’s the mere fact that we are being told what we can’t draw. It’ll never end there, because those who want censorship will always clamor for more. There are already calls for foalcon to be banned to.
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Settle down your tone as well then, and that was exactly which caused my “explosive response”, yet now you say this is why you called the maturity into question? From the future? Are you a prophet?
Your posts reek of arrogance and fake, disingenuous “nah guys I’m cool with both sides, just you do now listen to my patronizing message of why you should surrender everything to the left and call it a compromise”.
 
@Skoon  
Both of you, cool it down. Specifically because the anon is right, Skoon, you are being patronizing.
 
What’s giving up the Nazi swastika if it means there’s a chance to return to cohesive function all around?
Remember the liberty and security quote? Lemme rephrase it a bit.  
Those who compromise their integrity for a chance at comfort will not get comfort.  
then you have the undeniable high ground if the other side continues to sour afterward.
No, to extend the analogy, you’ve just climbed on the olive tree that “the other side” is about to feed into a woodchipper.
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Consarnit I wish you weren’t right about that. I don’t agree with leaving the platform either, but that’s what some people felt they had to do. I’m of a mind of trying to pull everybody back in, and I know it’s futile but that’s who I am.
 
I suppose I ought to point out that there are actually more than two sides in this argument in terms of conduct.
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Patronizing is how you are choosing to take it.
 
I will never understand why a little middle ground wisdom is such a horrible thing.
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Why do you draw her, then? She’s a Nazi. I’m sure you could create your own OC who isn’t.
 
And I don’t see a mass slippewry slope in a site that took this long ot do anything and only in the face of bad mainstream press at that.
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@Skoon  
Because it’s always a pro censorship compromise. Then another pro censorship compromise, then another, and another, and another.
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@Skoon  
No I can’t handle that you are full of shit and deceitful smug attitude, and think that you are so above everyone else, that nobody notices your basic warping of logic and causality relations. You act as if you are 2 levels above everyone, when you aren’t, to put it plainly.
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Cos I think her color scheme is super cute and she herself is cute. I also know that she is just a pile of pixels. She’s not a real Nazi and no one really believes her existence promotes Nazis.
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