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Hexbear will be federating soon, there should be pinned post explaining it (www.hexbear.net)
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Hexbear is far more likely to have users entering and using our comms, being another large socialist instance, albeit dedicated to left unity rather than Marxism like ourselves. I think there is enough of a culture change that we need to have a pinned post for hexbear users coming here explaining what kind of content/attitudes they might see here/what different rules to follow

There should also be a section dedicated to explaining to lemmygrad users to respect hexbear comm rules and what to expect from their users etc.

I think this would help ease any potential cross site struggle sessions

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Blacklist is not an American word. It’s a British word originating from the term “Blackbook” in the 15th century during the reign of King Henry the 8th, during which he carried with him a literal black book in which he wrote the names of everyone who opposed his rule or conspired to kill him. Hence everyone on the “blacklist” were marked for execution.

This is the first recorded usage of “Blacklist” which was in 1639 in an English play.

https://archive.org/details/dramaticworksofp02massiala/page/194/mode/1up

Referring to a person as “black” is also a modern invention that arose in the 60’s in America.

Why should the world bend to the Western purview of race and retroactively change their language to accommodate Americans? Nearly 1 billion people speak English worldwide. Why should one nationality get to dictate the rules and what’s “appropriate” using their own social understandings?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't understand. Everything is about America.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I had an issue come up at work once where we were asked to switch to an allow/deny list. Obviously did it because its America and I'm not trying to rock the boat, but I got a good chuckle reading your post thinking back on that.