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.
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.
Interesting how your geopolitical positions don’t imply bigotry towards the countries you oppose while their geopolitical positions do, somehow 🤔
As I said, I’m not anti-any-culture. Authoritarian is not a culture group. I’m anti-authoritarian no matter who or where is doing it.
Cool. I am too, which is why I’m opposed to having a single powerful global hegemon throwing its weight around all across the globe and using economic coercion against developing countries. Apparently that makes me a bigot, somehow 🙄
God, you’re annoying. Stop strawmaning. That’s fine. Being just anti-western isn’t. The US isn’t the west.
Right, I’m strawmanning. You’re totally not.
The US isn’t the only country that exploits developing countries, and the rest of western countries help it maintain its hegemony. Still miles away from connecting this to bigotry in any way.
Bigotry: The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one’s own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
Ironically, you’re being a bigot right now.
Lmao. Is this a bit? If I have a narrow-minded perspective on what constitutes a sandwich, does that make me a bigot?