Immediately stomp an insect when they see one inside the house. It's like a reflex or impulse and honestly it's kinda scary seeing an otherwise nice person just stomp an insect or spider or whatever in cold blood almost instantaneously. There's like no thought or contemplation, it's just see the insect, and then immediately stomp it.

Like holy shit what did that little critter do to you? Just let it be.

EDIT: Holy fuck the responses. I guess many didn't actually read what I wrote. I wrote that people who "immediately stomp" without "thought or contemplation" have fash tendencies and I get accused of fashjacketing. Ugh whatever. To those who had thoughtful responses (e.g. if you feel something stinging your skin and swat it with your hand, or if you have an infestation issue in your house, etc.), I gotta say those make sense and I hear you all the way (and even in those cases it's not like there's a kneejerk intentional kill response, it's usually accidental or done after careful deliberation). But to the ones complaining about fashjacketing, maybe do some self crit for fuck's sake. You sound exactly like the fucking man vs bear defender types or a white fragility type, Jesus... It makes me actually think you do have fash tendencies tbh.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 74 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You are fashjacketing people who kill bugs. Please consider... idk... just consider something. Everyone who isn't a Jain is a fascist? What is this?

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

people are kinda nuts sometimes

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Compassion for all living things isn't nuts, and I'm sympathetic, but calling killing bugs a fash tendency is not reasonable or productive. It's not indicative of anything. The only group that consistently refused to kill bugs, afaik, is the Jains. And there's only a few million of them. Saying that every other culture, society, government, group of people in the world has fash tendencies because they thoughtlessly kill bugs is not accurate and does not represent a remotely materialist analysis.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Yes. To defend OP, the title did say might be one and although Jeff Foxworthy has turned that 'might ' into an 'do' with that phrasing by association, it probably goes back further but whatever. So I can give ground that it's a red flag, and does have a mentality in common with fascism in regards to killing things you view as inferior and seeing it as totally cool and okay. Vegan struggle sesh material here, but the industrial slaughter of living beings for the utility of another does have some pretty clear parallels.

If anything that can do me harm is in the process of that or seems to be ready to and it's something like a bug, then I'm not gonna be able to reason with it and I can't really give it a nonnlethal physical scare. My hands are kinds tied there. But otherwise, I don't hurt things cause that's bad and does speak to a mindset that is certainly fash adjacent but not in any meaningfully determining way. I get where it's coming from.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't read this a fashjacketing, I read it as an examination of a specific fascism-compatible tendency, phrased in a way that could also easily be read as fashjacketing.

[–] muslimmarxist@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah reading comp is beyond some here...

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This post was made in the politics comm. If it had been made in /c/vegan or /c/chapotraphouse or /c/chat it would be read differently. In the context of the politics comm it reads as an earnest statement intended to be read at face value. The choice of venue shapes how the message is perceived. The post reads as a political statement that killing bugs reveals a person to have fascist character.

I am sympathetic to your compassion for all living things, but this is not an appropriate way to present that view.

[–] muslimmarxist@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This post was made in the politics comm. If it had been made in /c/vegan or /c/chapotraphouse or /c/chat it would be read differently. In the context of the politics comm it reads as an earnest statement intended to be read at face value. The choice of venue shapes how the message is perceived. The post reads as a political statement that killing bugs reveals a person to have fascist character.

I call complete cap on that. If anything this sounds like you trying to tone police based on "venue" or some ephemeral construct like that. "Oh I support your right to protest but do it in the rIGhT wAy!!" kinda shit. I see posts in all kinds of comms, including this one, that link behaviors with tendencies. Cuz you know, "everything is political" right? But with this all of a sudden come the "rules/regulations" BS? With all due respect, eff off with that shit.

but this is not an appropriate way to present that view.

Yup white moderate vibes... smh

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

I didn't take it that way, but could understand others doing so