My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a “tankie” instance, but it was nothing specific.
After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.
Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.
Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.
The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.
Yeah, they’re the worst part of the worst periods of 4chan. I don’t think that’s where most of them come from, but it’s the same type of people.
The fact that they always support authoritarianism is just the cherry on top that makes them totally unreasonable.
Funny, I would’ve thought “the worst part of the worst periods of 4chan” would be all the bigotry, racism, transphobia, and that sort of thing.
It is at least bigotry.
Bigotry gets you banned from Hexbear fast.
Unless you wanna play the, “Saying Palestinians should have rights is antisemitic” card or something similar.
No. I’m talking more about anti-westernism. It’s still bigotry. Some bigotry gets you banned quickly, but not all of it.
I didn’t mention Palestine. You’re creating a strawman. Anti-zionism is good. Stop the bullshit. You know they’re also against anything western, but they’ll defend Russia invading a sovereign nation.
I guess you didn’t see the “or something similar.”
Yes, they’re against western nations, just like they’re against the nation of Israel. Thus the comparison. Neither of those things are bigotry.
That is not included in similar by any reasonable measure. There are bad things in every culture. I’m not anti-russian or anti-china, even though I’m anti-authoritarian. All cultures also have plenty to offer. It’s bigotry to have hatred towards an entire culture group.