If I ignore/block them, it allows them to continue unchallenged. I hate getting into it with them, since they are a baseline idiot.

I guess that’s it. I saw a person with a 6 month account spouting garbage, was gonna block but thought perhaps that wasn’t morally responsible. Wondering what the options were.

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    I thought they were either shoved out, bullied out or pushed

    That’s not something we should be trying for though. Wouldn’t you be mad if suddenly conservatives came on and said that same thing about left-leaning people?!

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            I don’t know any nazis, but I’ve never condoned nor would I ever condone them. Are you around a bunch of nazis? Where do you live?!

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              I don’t know any nazis, but I’ve never condoned nor would I ever condone them.

              Sure. Let’s go with that.

              Are you around a bunch of nazis? Where do you live?!

              Not anymore. I left reddit. I don’t want lemmy becoming like reddit.

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                Good for you! I haven’t come across any Nazis here yet. Thanks for the warning.

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      Wouldn’t you be mad if suddenly conservatives came on and said that same thing about left-leaning people?!

      It’s less about whether I’d feel mad, and more about how that materially affects our community. Left-leaning people are trying to make communities which allow all peoples (but not all ideas, like exterminating races and objectifying sexes), while plenty of conservatives (I don’t think the word ‘conservative’ truly applies, but many identify as conservative) are trying to exclude peoples they consider undesirables. If you wanted, you can walk into an anarcho-communist or M-L organization and, as long as you don’t offend them with any provoking symbols or offensive ideas, be welcomed. Not everyone can do the same in a reactionary community. So I don’t think it’s fair to equivocate anti-rightism with anti-leftism. (and, as a side note, if we want to talk about the rare ultra-liberalist (‘Libertarian’) free-speech everyone-welcome scenario, Lemmy already went through that with Wolfballs a few years back - their admin shut it down when they eventually realized they’d created a Nazi bar and that the WNs weren’t just being dumb and offensive as a joke.)

      Furthermore, in the context of Lemmy overall, it was created by communists who were leaving reddit to avoid what you described:

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        are trying to exclude peoples they consider undesirables

        Which is exactly what you and Lemmy are doing by saying conservatives are not welcome here. They are un-desired…ala undesirable. Can’t you see the irony of what you are saying?!

        Take what you wrote and switch the words around. Change all the liberal words to Repubiclan. Then stand back and read it. Def sounds EXACTLY like how you all assume republicans talk and exclude.

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                You haven’t touched a nerve at all. I simply replied to your question. Is replying to a question or comment “touching a nerve”?!

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                    Correct, I do say so. Looks like I touched a nerve with my reply to you. We cool?

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        I meant Lemmy as a whole. And I agree with you that we shouldn’t be trying for that. I personally have been bullied and there have been plenty of attempts to push me out–all because I post links to news articles that have conservative points of view. Even when it’s AP News, I get bullied. lol

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          I personally have been bullied and there have been plenty of attempts to push me out–all because I post links to news articles that have conservative points of view.

          Did not everyone immediately agree with you and applaud?

          Poor thing.

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            I have never expected people to immediately agree with me or applaud. But diversity of opinion and thought is supposed the be the cornerstone of Democratic values. But it’s not. Not at all. I have seen more bullying and hate in the name of Democratic values here on Lemmy than anywhere else in my entire life. LMAO