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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I agree with your sentiment, but not your analogy.

If you allow gays at your bar is it a gay bar?

[–] SacralPlexus 7 points 1 month ago

The analogy comes from another post (which I can’t find at the moment) about a bartender running off a guy wearing nazi paraphernalia. When questioned by a patron the bartender explains that you can’t let them in because if you allow a Nazi in your bar once, the next time he brings a few friends. Then they become regulars and get louder and the next thing you know they have run off decent customers and you now have a Nazi bar.

Who knows if the story is true but it is meant to illustrate how fascist culture is like a cancer that takes over and displaces everything if allowed a foothold. It cannot be tolerated.

So hopefully you can see how it is not similar to having gay patrons in a bar. No one reaonably expects that a few gay patrons are going to start acting aggressively and trying to make others feel threatened or uncomfortable. But that is bread and butter for Nazis.

[–] PoopingCough 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was more referencing this than trying to make a standalone analogy; my bad for just assuming people had seen it before.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 2 points 1 month ago

Ah OK. With this context it makes much more sense.