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Hexbear will be federating soon, there should be pinned post explaining it (www.hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are sex workers not workers?

And I think everyone would agree that a developed socialist society would support everyone to the point where no one feels economically compelled to engage in sex work. Hexbear recognizes that unde capitalism sex work is usually exploitative, similar to how most other work is exploitative.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your comment didn't come off as rude, and it looks like we agree on quite a bit. But honestly you're responding to a lot of things I didn't say -- I didn't suggest anything like an "anything goes" approach to sex work, and I pointed out how exploitative it usually is.

I also find this behavior of thinking someone knows more about solving these issues and increasing the conditions of the working class members who are subjected to sex work than AES nations is ridiculous and chauvinistic.

Ignoring AES states' policies is chauvinistic, but treating them as infallible is dogmatic and unscientific. AES states themselves acknowledge their past shortcomings and seek improvements.

In the immediate context of trying to build socialism in a capitalist society, I think the best approach is to meet sex workers with tools that are immediately useful, like unions (which do exist for sex workers) and legal protections. Telling them that they are involved in evil and ideally their work wouldn't exist doesn't offer them anything within their grasp, and can come across as preachy.