•  millie   ( @millie@beehaw.org ) 
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          Joe Biden is literally funding the murder of thousands of children, while Donald Trump is currently being tried for several felonies.

          Also, while protecting these fascists and felons, you seem to mistaken me for OP.

            •  millie   ( @millie@beehaw.org ) 
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              They’re not insulting or demeaning labels, they’re facts. Donald Trump is a felon. Joe Biden is complicit in authoritarian war crimes and genocide, and is quashing public dissent with state force. You know, like a fascist.

              What’s disturbing, and definitely not nice, is having staff here defend these people from criticism. Slaughtering children isn’t nice. Calling it out is.

              These are public figures who directly engage in hurting others as a matter of course.

              • …staff here defend these people from criticism.

                Show me where Beehaw staff have defended anyone from criticism.

                The subject at hand is name-calling. It is not nice.

                The subject that you keep reiterating is current events and politics.

                Do you understand the difference?

                •  t3rmit3   ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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                  To clarify as another Beehaw user, are “fascist” and “felon” in fact being objected to here, or only the use of “fuck” as a noun/name?

                  I easily understand the latter as name-calling, as it’s purely an invective, but the former 2 don’t make sense to me as being violations of Bee Nice.

                  That seems to be veering into the realm of toxic positivity, if we can’t call a person doing fascistic things a fascist, or a person doing felonious things a felon.

                  • Name-calling is a form of argument in which insulting or demeaning labels are directed at an individual or group.

                    Labeling Joe Biden as a ‘fascist’ is name-calling. Whether or not he is, truly, a fascist is not what is being addressed here.

                    Beehaw is a space that strives to be(e) nice apart from the thousands of Internet spaces that could care less.