I like a few non-political sublemmies from lemmyworld because they are big. But the political ones are so toxic they literally allow citing mein kamf and dehumanizing Russians. Isn’t it hypocritical for their admins to accuse us of “negativity” when they literally allow racism on their instance? The commenters on their defed post call lemmygradians hateful, I think that’s projection
Liberals are against all forms oppression except those that they like (speciesism, Russophobia, Slavophobia, Sinophobia).
Liberals are against all forms oppression except those that they like (speciesism, Russophobia, Slavophobia, Sinophobia).
I like to phrase it, “Liberals are against all forms of oppression except the status quo.”
More accurate still, "Liberals are against everything except the status quo."
They hate all forms of oppression except the current form. Just as they oppose all wars except the current one.
Hate and negativity = critical of white supremacy and imperial hegemony
If they think that is hateful then I don’t mind the deferation. There is very little to be gained by interacting with people who think 70% of the world is subhuman.
I say this a lot, but interacting with those people isn’t for those people. It’s for the passive onlooker. It’s well documented that being exposed to the same information/idea repeatedly can make you believe that idea. And apparently (recently learned this) negative gossip can be completely derailed by a single dissenting voice early on in the gossip.
So, if possible (safety, mental health, emotional well being etc. willing) pushing back against these anti-social opinions in public spheres can prevent the spread of them.
Don’t give the fascists any platform. Let them know that nowhere is safe for them and their hate.
FYI, that screenshot was from a thread on Lemmy.zip. That said, your point stands and I’ve seen far worse on .world. The .worlders have a tendency to drive me away from .ML posts too because there tends to be so much chauvinism coming from that instance.
Ultimately, I think it benefitted us, but I think it also drove them to be more like Reddit, which is what they wanted.
Edit: For those who may stumble upon this and think OP was exaggerating about this sort of drivel being directly from Mein Kampf…
Never forget that the rulers of present-day Russia are common blood-stained criminals; that they are the scum of humanity which, favoured by circumstances, overran a great state in a tragic hour, slaughtered out thousands of her leading intelligentsia in wild bloodlust, and now for almost ten years have been carrying on the most cruel and tyrannical regime of all time.
Furthermore, do not forget that these rulers belong to a race which combines, in a rare mixture, bestial cruelty and an inconceivable gift for lying, and which today more than ever is conscious of a mission to impose its bloody oppression on the whole world.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
The liberals you’re referring to a cowardly and insular. They would rather remove the people that give them cognitive dissonance than confront their inconsistencies. It should be no surprise that they are mostly settlers and PMC Euros, a mix of entitlement and semi-education that maximizes arrogance.
They are so afraid of hexbear that their admins pre-defederated while saying they only do so as a last resort. Their userbase, domesticated animals they are, easily went along. They even thanked them, lmao.
HB does fine have never been federated with them. I honestly assumed they were already defederated from you all. Yes, the reason they gave is obviously a fig leaf, they’re a bunch of liberal cowards.
