The way people aligned with literal nazis during the nix communitty fuck up keep saying they're made to feel unsafe because of demands to exclude them is just an irritating example of how you cannot reason with a fascist, you cannot point out their hypocrisy, there's no "small steps" to take.
People who equate not permitting bigots with bigotry are actively a danger, as much as those bigots who are funding, campaigning, supporting the would be dictators that capitalist democracies create.
There's enough essays written on this topic, this isn't a new concept, it's just a shame people keep needing to relearn it.
There's no magical balance, and there is no gotcha that will make people who think like that suddenly reconsider. Someone who views rightist ideology as innate but innate identities as choices won't reconsider, because they're entire worldview is built to accept logical conflicts. Same as the freedom crowd who platform nazis and are pro restricting bodily autonomy.
You cannot argue away something as innately contradictory as fascist beliefs. There's no logic or reason to any of it, there's no scientific underpinnings, it's reactionary and regressive beliefs of people who are terrified of the reality in which the world changes for the better because all they expect is those they mistreated doing the same to them.
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