how not to have a nazi bar

[solarbird]

The way to keep your bar from becoming a Nazi bar is to bring down the hammer the instant even one of them shows up.

I just had to do that on a mailing list I host - we host a bunch, mostly for clubs and not-for-profits - against QAnon antivax horseshit.

Not havin' it.

Just not.

I told the poster, I'm not gonna try to get through to you, I'm not gonna try to talk you back to reality, because I know how this works and that'll just make you dig your heels even further in.

What you do elsewhere isn't my job. But you're not bringing that shit here.

And if this list's official management decides that's not okay, then they're welcome to find a new host somewhere else.

I would not be joining them at that point.

I don't like doing this shit, I've known some of these people since school.

But I am not. having. it.

And nobody should.

Comments

[dewline]

Indeed not. No more.

[gingicat]

Thankful for people like you.

[rialian]

===exactly.

[gwydion]

*sighs* It just keeps spreading. Thank you for standing firm.

[kathmandu]

Kudos to you. Sigh.

[lothie]

Absolutely! (Are any of these lists elf lists?)

[sistawendy]

Go you. Consequences work.

[solarbird]

No, I closed the last of that down some years ago.

[solarbird]

It needs to be very, very expensive to be a fascist of any sort. (And yeah, QAnon and antivaxxism are at this point just protofascism, which is why PBs recruit so heavily in their environments.)

[lothie]

Yeah, I know about that, but I wasn't sure if maybe there was a replacement :)

[dewline]

Amen, amen, amen.