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[–] givesomefucks 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So....

Does that mean you can't give a single example of what your complaining about?

[–] NOT_RICK 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Personally, I’ve had comments I’ve posted on lemmy.ml deleted for “bigotry” for saying Iran supports Hamas which is an objective fact. It wasn’t even a commentary on policy but I’m still a bigot somehow.

I mean, shit, you even implied I am an enemy of basic human decency for making a mild criticism in a meme sub.

[–] Sheeple 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Your first mistake was being active on the .ml instance which generally has been anti-anarchist

[–] Eldritch 9 points 10 months ago

Realistically they're generally anti-anyone that disagrees with them. Not just of anarchists, or actual communists for that matter. They just tend to hate anarchists and real communists more. Because they know and can articulate where the bodies are buried better than most others so to speak.

[–] NOT_RICK 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I’ve started unfollowing .ml communities because I’ve found it’s just not worth contributing. I have an alt on dbzero’s instance that I’ve found much better.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I've seen older people be cancelled or called fascists over the use of outdated words like 'transgendered', without even an explanation. Obviously, that word is now deprecated and considered a pejorative, but it used to be commonly accepted word and was even used within the community.

I've had people call me sexist, because I was critical of Mattel's motives when making the Barbie movie. Mattel is a company run by a man, with an abysmal record on how they treat their (female) employees, and Barbie negatively damages girls' body image.

I've also had people reply to comments in which I paraphrased or literally quoted feminist thinkers like Dworkin, of mansplaining or not being able to understand sexism because I lacked 'lived experience'. It's not a coincidence that plenty of left-wing feminists, were easy prey for right wing ideology and are now virulent transphobes. Eg. JK Rowling.

Being balanced or even slightly nuanced on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is also likely to result in you getting piled on in some terminally online left wing spaces, where people have gone to the other extreme and now seemingly implicitly or explictly support Hamas/Iran. Same thing for Russia/Ukraine.

You also just accused someone of lacking basic human decency, for criticizing what they perceived as the excesses of online leftists.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You also just accused someone of lacking basic human decency, for criticizing what they perceived as the excesses of online leftists.

This was my first thought when reading that comment... smh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's painfully un-self-aware.

[–] PopOfAfrica 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The point about the Mattel CEO was literally a joke in the movie. The director clearly agreed with you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also: Mattel execs are on record as saying the Barbie movie isn't feminist. Presumably they don't want to annoy right wing and non-western audiences too much.

Don't get me wrong, fun movie. But there are plenty of reasons to be sceptical of its feminist credentials.

But hey, what do I know. I'm just Ken.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

You say you’ve had people do these things, but I suspect you’ve had either bots or foreign agents do these things.

And a few suggestible people who actually do take on those behaviors.

Gotta remember there are people heavily invested in the US going down. The US hasn’t had a ground invasion, but we’ve definitely had a social media invasion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gun ownership. Leftist groups NEED gun owners, but will turn their nose up at them and call them Nazi's.

The most amazing thing gun culture in the US did was get liberals to disarms themselves willingly by falsely associating gun ownership with toxic masculinity and conservative values.

Read Marx. Acquire guns.

[–] agent_flounder 1 points 10 months ago

Gun ownership. Leftist groups NEED gun owners, but will turn their nose up at them and call them Nazi's.

Not if they are far enough left (as you allude to) or otherwise practically minded, I've found. We are few but we are out there. Self defense is an intrinsic right of living beings, period, the end.