• Chris Remington@beehaw.org
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      This is a ‘soft warning’ about name-calling. Generally speaking, name-calling isn’t nice. Please, be(e) nice when using Beehaw. Thank you.

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        Is ‘fascist’ name calling in this context, or ‘felon’?

        Do presidential candidates really need to be protected from such milquetoast criticism?

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          Unsubstantiated name calling. There is no sufficient evidence to support the label you’re attributing to the person. It is opinionated and name calling.

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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.

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

              That’s what we, at Beehaw, don’t want. It is not nice.

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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.

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                  …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?

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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.

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                    I’m going to be frank. Your response to this thread is a huge red flag for me, and it makes me much less comfortable being here.

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          There is some irony is the name-calling warning coming in as a reply to the “white moderate/wanting order” comment.